A client's team built the core feature in five days. Then came the edge cases, the migration script, the security review, the load test that failed, and the staging bug that took longer to fix than the feature itself.
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Personal blog about my experiences and thoughts on software development.
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- A client connected 11 MCP servers to their development environment in three months. When I reviewed the OAuth scopes, two of them had write access to production infrastructure. Nobody had checked.
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- A client's Datadog bill quietly grew to $38K/month — nearly double their actual compute spend. The culprit wasn't one big mistake but a dozen small defaults nobody revisited.
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- A client's codebase had impressive test coverage numbers. Then I introduced a deliberate bug and watched every single test pass. Coverage was measuring execution, not verification.
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- A client's multi-tenant SaaS had menus, routes, and role checks — all in the browser. The API behind it would happily serve any tenant's data to anyone with a valid session token. It took eight months for someone to notice.
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