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

#aiagents #incidents #postmortem #llm
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Post-Mortems for Agent Runs
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Post-Mortems for Agent Runs

#postmortem #softwareengineering #failuremodeanalysis #agenticai
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How We Turned Incident Response into 5-Min Postmortems (And Actually Fixed Things)
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How We Turned Incident Response into 5-Min Postmortems (And Actually Fixed Things)

#devops #bestpractices #postmortem #incidentmanagement
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The Day I Broke Production Because of an Icon
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The Day I Broke Production Because of an Icon

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

#mcp #debugging #javascript #postmortem
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The Eighth Server: How One Missed Deploy Ended Knight Capital, 2012
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The Eighth Server: How One Missed Deploy Ended Knight Capital, 2012

#postmortem #devops #reliability #deploy
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One Night a Storage System Died and Changed How I Think About Software
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One Night a Storage System Died and Changed How I Think About Software

#incident #reliability #postmortem #assumptions
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How To Write A Post Mortem Report Without Blame Language
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How To Write A Post Mortem Report Without Blame Language

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

#webdev #postmortem #seo #ai
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How We Killed Our Worst Alert (And What We Learned)
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How We Killed Our Worst Alert (And What We Learned)

#sre #devops #alerts #postmortem
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I got tired of writing post-mortems — so I built RCAi for SREs
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I got tired of writing post-mortems — so I built RCAi for SREs

#sre #devops #ai #postmortem
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400 Million Tokens Burned Overnight
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400 Million Tokens Burned Overnight

#ai #deepseek #debugging #postmortem
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My agent could see the dropdown. It just couldn't pick anything.
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My agent could see the dropdown. It just couldn't pick anything.

#ai #opensource #javascript #postmortem
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The billing bet that killed my coding-agent harness
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The billing bet that killed my coding-agent harness

#ai #claudecode #postmortem #devtools
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The Unit That Crossed a Boundary: Mars Climate Orbiter, 1999
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The Unit That Crossed a Boundary: Mars Climate Orbiter, 1999

#postmortem #systemdesign #softwareengineering #freebsd
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