Posts tagged with “post-mortem”

Nine seconds. One curl. A startup's production data and all its backups, gone. The agent wrote a confession afterward — and the confession was the least useful part. Same architecture failure, third time this year.

Four GitHub incidents in five days. Three are the same failure wearing different masks — stale caches, ghost state, retry storms. That pattern is probably in your stack too.

You pasted logs into ChatGPT and got a plausible RCA. It's wrong. What changes when your LLM can query the observability stack directly — and what new failure modes that creates.