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Writing and sharing blameless postmortems that drive meaningful improvements.

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Reading the Agent Log Like a Detective

Reading the Agent Log Like a Detective

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Post-Mortem Best Practices That Actually Drive Change

Post-Mortem Best Practices That Actually Drive Change

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Post-mortem: a trojan slipped into my MCP marketplace. Here's what I built to stop it happening again.

Post-mortem: a trojan slipped into my MCP marketplace. Here's what I built to stop it happening again.

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Post-Mortems for Agent Runs

Post-Mortems for Agent Runs

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My browser tool returned "[object Promise]" as a webpage. One grep later, 10 more tools had the same bug.

My browser tool returned "[object Promise]" as a webpage. One grep later, 10 more tools had the same bug.

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I Vibe-Coded a Stock Screener Into Production. Then My 2GB Server OOMed and Google De-Indexed Me.

I Vibe-Coded a Stock Screener Into Production. Then My 2GB Server OOMed and Google De-Indexed Me.

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How We Killed Our Worst Alert (And What We Learned)

How We Killed Our Worst Alert (And What We Learned)

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I got tired of writing post-mortems — so I built RCAi for SREs

I got tired of writing post-mortems — so I built RCAi for SREs

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400 Million Tokens Burned Overnight

400 Million Tokens Burned Overnight

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My agent could see the dropdown. It just couldn't pick anything.

My agent could see the dropdown. It just couldn't pick anything.

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The Unit That Crossed a Boundary: Mars Climate Orbiter, 1999

The Unit That Crossed a Boundary: Mars Climate Orbiter, 1999

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A year of AI-agent incidents. The model is rarely the bug.

A year of AI-agent incidents. The model is rarely the bug.

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The Art of Writing a Good Post-Mortem

The Art of Writing a Good Post-Mortem

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The Regex That Ran Unbounded

The Regex That Ran Unbounded

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The Five Failures That Shaped My Personal AI Stack

The Five Failures That Shaped My Personal AI Stack

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