set -e ate the report
2026.213Under set -e a failing check exits before the line that reports it. Thirty of the forty-four in my quality gate can never print FAIL.
Tooling
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The model is the stale one
2026.162I pointed two frontier models at my own docs to see which one to pay for. Both flagged the correct, freshly-updated pages as stale -- the audit was poisoned by the thing being audited.
The mechanism is the enforcement
2026.158Three AI code-review tools sit on the same model. The one that guarantees coverage did it with a for-loop, not a better prompt.
The archive reads back
2026.111An LLM in the middle of a fetch pipeline took orders from the file it was summarizing.
The margins
2026.090190 spinner verbs. A thinking indicator nobody specced. Reading Claude Code's source -- and what engineering taste looks like when nobody's watching.