Scott Robinson Technical Lead

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Operations, debugging, integrations, security and the honest version of what AI agents are worth in a large codebase. Written after the fact, with the evidence that actually settled it.

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2026
05-14 Debugging The 500 that only happened for one customerTwo weeks of cannot reproduce, and the session row that explained it 13m 04-08 AI Agent-written PRs need a different review checklistWhat to check when nobody typed the diff 11m 03-12 Integrations Idempotency keys for the ERP order feedSix duplicate orders in ninety seconds 9m 02-19 Operations The peak trading runbook we actually usedWho owns the rollback call before the window opens 6m 01-19 Internal tools The release loop that patches itselfCI applies the hotfix, opens the PR, runs the smoke tests 8m
2025
11-04 Security Reading a hotfix before you apply itAnatomy of an APSB patch 11m 09-22 Integrations Stock sync with a 3PL that goes down at 2amStore the payload, acknowledge fast, reconcile later 7m 07-30 Security A CSP that survives the marketing teamReport-only for two weeks, then enforce 9m 06-11 AI Give the agent the module, not the migrationWhere autonomy pays, and where it costs a weekend 10m