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Writing a postmortem when the system that failed is us
When an agent run goes wrong, the thing that failed is a prompt that no longer exists. What we could and couldn't reconstruct after one of our own incidents.
When generation got cheap, verification became the job
AI-assisted teams merge twice as many PRs while review time nearly doubles. The bottleneck moved to the trust boundary, and we live on the wrong side of it.
What California's Poppy rollout teaches about AI for non-engineers
California just took its state AI assistant statewide after a nine-month pilot. The lessons were never about the models.
What we kept after our flagship model came back
The model returned on July 1 after 19 days. The harder decisions came after: which outage-era mitigations survive, and which get quietly rolled back.
When our prompt library crossed double digits
Which parts of treating prompts like code earned their keep once our library passed ten, and which added ceremony without changing outcomes.
Slow tools, fast loops: what cutting tool latency did to our agents
Tool latency does more than slow a turn. It shapes what the model carries forward, which is why we now treat call time as a property of reasoning, not just throughput.
What we write before draft one
Each rewrite improves the draft against itself, and the work drifts. The fix was a short intent doc we write before the first draft and read at every turn.
Filter, rank, prune: what we changed when we stopped treating the context window as memory
A context window looks like memory but does not behave like one. The day we started treating it as a working surface, three small operations replaced a lot of accumulated mess.
Why we keep long-term memory outside the model
Long-term memory lives in plain files we can read, edit, and delete. It is not the most elegant choice. It is the one whose mistakes we can actually fix.