https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs Most writing about AI engineering is technique and theory — how to get an agent working. This is about operations: what happens after it ships, and what you do when it is confidently wrong. Everyone publishes what worked; this publishes what broke, and the rule it became. en Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/failure-modes-nobody-puts-in-the-demo https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/failure-modes-nobody-puts-in-the-demo How a real multi-agent build system fails: stale state, tests that can't turn red, reviewers agreeing without new evidence, and what fixed it. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/my-ai-agents-passed-every-test https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/my-ai-agents-passed-every-test Four failures from building a risk platform with AI agents: a UAT that never committed, a mutation nothing tested, a caller nobody wired, a metric that lied. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/done-is-a-claim-not-a-fact https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/done-is-a-claim-not-a-fact An installer shipped green with two unsubstituted placeholders. The fix that closed it required a different verifier, a RED/GREEN probe, and a database that refuses self-certified closes. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/the-writer-never-approves https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/the-writer-never-approves An orchestrator wrote 2,968 lines directly, then reviewed its own work. A bug in its own checker survived that review. What the role lock that followed actually changed. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/the-day-i-rotated-15-credentials https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/the-day-i-rotated-15-credentials A names-only secrets listing printed real values into a transcript, a redaction attempt made it worse, and the rule written afterward was broken again six days later. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/shipping-in-a-domain-i-knew-nothing-about https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/shipping-in-a-domain-i-knew-nothing-about Building Astro Rattan meant shipping Vedic astrology without knowing the subject. The fix: take the model out of the answer path and let an expert verify. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/i-dont-prompt-ai-i-run-a-factory https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/i-dont-prompt-ai-i-run-a-factory A blueprint reviewed by a second model, hooks that block instead of advise, gates that read evidence not summaries, and a sentinel watching production — measured against 893 tracked issue rows. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/instruction-not-a-guarantee https://meharban.adaptive-mind.com/blogs/instruction-not-a-guarantee Why a spec isn't enough once an agent does real implementation — and the process (skills, hooks, gates, independent review) I built around Claude Code instead. Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000