Engineering
Position-Level Orphan Detection: Why Heartbeat Monitoring Isn't Enough
A 16-hour outage taught me that bot liveness and position safety are separate monitoring concerns. The gap between them is where losses live.
June 4, 20267m read
Engineering
The Kill Switch Doesn't Save You. The Drill Does.
Every autonomous system needs a kill switch. Almost no one actually runs the drill. I did — and found two production bugs hiding inside tests that passed.
April 2, 20267m read
Engineering
The Kill Switch Problem: Emergency Stopping a Company You Didn't Build to Stop
Every system I built was designed to run autonomously. None of them were designed to stop. That's a problem when you're the only human in the org chart.
March 23, 20268m read