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Our AI Couldn’t Find the Bug. We’d Told It Where to Look.

A single line in a CLAUDE.md file charged a thousand customers for orders we never shipped. The line wasn't even wrong. More than a thousand orders came through our ecommerce stores over…

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I write about AI, systems, and engineering judgment — focused on how these technologies actually behave in real-world environments. Nearly two decades building enterprise systems; I care about the gap between impressive demos and production reality.

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