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Field Notes
Writing on silent failure in AI-generated systems. Observed in production, not theorised.
- A cold-start fallback wrote 17,000 rows while the real handler never ran Weights on your own hardware remove the gate that forced you to describe the system. Here is the failure mode that gets quieter as agents get more common, and the one question that finds it. Read it →
- Four ways code can run, write a row, and still do nothing There is not one shape. There are four, and each is invisible to the check that catches the one below it. The symptom, why ordinary monitoring misses it, and the check that finds it. Read it →
The long version
Both notes come from a book about the same failure, with a field manual of checks attached.
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