Topic
Monitoring
3 posts on monitoring — guides and lab notes from real runs on hardware we own. New posts land here automatically. Start anywhere, or grab the copy-paste prompts that ship with them.
- 4 min read
A self-healing system can't heal an empty queue
Automated recovery only fixes a broken machine. When the real failure is an empty queue, retrying does nothing forever. Two failures, one red box, opposite repairs.
- 4 min read
Your Cron Jobs Lie - Why I Built an Outcome Checker
Scheduled tasks exit 0 even when the work never happened. Here is the outcome layer I built on top of my agent fleet, and why it shipped before any new dashboard.
- 5 min read
The Silent-Success Trap: Your Monitoring Is Green and You Still Shipped Nothing
Every dashboard was green and zero blog posts went live. Exit codes tell you the job ran, not that the outcome happened. Here is how to check the real artifact instead.
The AI agent build notes
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