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Backlog Zero: Burning Down the Estate with a Triage Machine
How a wave-based triage machine burned an estate backlog from 973 to 531 open issues using deterministic gates and verified close manifests.
ReadSurviving CoreWeave: the GPU failures that burn your hours
A practitioner field guide to CoreWeave's real GPU failure modes: Xid triage, silent RDMA fallback, MPIJob launch, LOTA storage, and building your own cost view.
ReadRun the Readiness Audit Before You Flip DNS
An adversarial readiness audit found a payment-path bug that would have charged every customer, then returned HTTP 500 — before the irreversible DNS flip.
ReadRent the Agent, Own the Proof
Anthropic's Claude Tag is the best agentic teammate you can rent. The question it doesn't answer: who owns the memory, and who can verify the audit log? Here's what customer-owned, verifiable agent governance looks like in code.
ReadGate the Statement, Not the Tool Name
When one MCP tool carries every SQL verb, allowlisting tool names is theater. The safety boundary has to read the statement — here's how that gate was built.
ReadCoverage Said 69%, Mutation Testing Said 25%
A repo at 69% line coverage scored 24.88% on mutation testing—and the rules engine that touches user email scored 0.00%. Coverage said fine; Stryker didn't.
ReadWhen LLM Output Lies Instead of Crashing
An LLM-output parsing bug silently understated a cost report via case-sensitivity. One-line normalizer fix plus 5 defensive hardening steps.
ReadThe LLM Should Never Do the Math
A Claude Code skill that hunts Databricks cost leaks and reports confirmed dollars from the customer's own billing tables — never LLM estimates.
ReadA Denial You Can Audit Beats a Silent Drop
The governed second brain shipped: one plugin, two modes, and a governor that hands back a receipt when it refuses a write instead of dropping it silently.
ReadA Reply Your Bot Loses to a Crash Is One Your User Never Got
Making every bot reply path — streaming and file-upload — crash-durable. The unglamorous reliability work that separates a demo bot from one people depend on.
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