post-mortem
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A grep job cost forty-seven dollars
A scheduled Claude Code skill shelled out to curl on its own and burned $47.30 in 19 minutes. The root cause, the commit 7a3b8d2 that fixed it, and the guardrails.
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Nothing crashed, nothing shipped
An agent committed at 03:17; production absorbed it at 03:20. Eleven silent hours later: why every commit is a deployment, and how to watch them land.
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Our repair agent patched the wrong file four times
A Claude Code repair agent patched the wrong file four times in 31 hours. Why agents anchor on tracebacks, and the prompt rewrite that fixed it.
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Opened the dashboard at 23:47
Microsoft cancelled Claude Code subscriptions. Here's the production audit one indie operator ran on $847/mo of Anthropic spend.
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your logs are lying to you
Five production failure modes in Claude Code platforms, the exact code that causes each, and the five-step debugging loop that isolates them.