EngineerPrep / Engineering Research

Production incident reports

Reports on what breaks when AI reaches production, from a system we run ourselves — the bills, the failures, and the instrumentation that made them visible.

• The Agent That Would Not Stop: Why Your Loop Has No Boundary

  47 successful iterations, zero state change, and nobody owning the word 'done'

• The Parent Looks Fine: Why Agent Failures Hide One Level Down

  The operation you can name reports success. The child did the damage.

• The Zero-Dollar Orchestrator: Why Your AI Cost Dashboard Can Lie

  How 54% of our AI bill hid under a $0.00 row