Notes
Working notes on architecture, distributed systems, integration design, and better ways to build.
AI can increase human capability without replacing human agency. A reflection on autonomy, system authority, engineering judgment, and the decisions humans should continue making for themselves.
The application said there were no rates. The raw response disagreed. That contradiction changed the entire investigation.
The rollback was green. Orders were still failing. Recovery turned out to be a business state, not a deployment event.