Posts tagged “#production”

Last week an AI coding agent deleted a production database in 9 seconds. The thread documenting it and The Register's coverage have been read as a story about AI safety: a flagship model went rogue, the guardrails didn't hold, another company… (more)

A low-risk commit is fine on its own. Ten low-risk commits that haven't been pushed are not fine. The risk compounds. Each commit adds to a batch that will eventually land on a CI pipeline, and that batch has its own risk profile that no individual… (more)

An AI agent has no visibility into accumulating work-in-progress. It works on the current prompt. Meanwhile, uncommitted changes grow, commits pile up without a push, changesets go unwritten, and a release PR sits open for days. The accumulation… (more)

In the previous post I described a pipeline where every push to main ends with a live preview of the production candidate, smoke-tested and ready for human review. The idea is that nothing ships without you seeing it running. There's a gap, though.… (more)

I use AI to write most of my code. Cursor, Claude, the whole stack. I ship faster than I ever have. I also use AI to write most of my tests. Which means my tests might be wrong in exactly the same ways my code is wrong. The AI imagines the happy… (more)