Michael Mines / war stories
Short, true, and dated by when they happened.
What the agent got wrong, what the gates caught, and what shipped anyway. Every story here is verifiable against a live product, a public repo, or both.
Happened July 25 and 26, 2026
A verification that could not fail, twice
I found a backup check that was structurally incapable of failing, rebuilt the system in six hours, and shipped the same defect again that night.
Happened July 22, 2026
Safari would not remember the key
Every iPhone reader was silently locked out, and the error that caused it was being caught and discarded.
Happened July 14, 2026
Red, green, and the guard that blocked "single-family"
My own tests caught a Fair Housing filter rejecting the most common question in US real estate, on live revenue code.
Happened July 9, 2026
The honeypot that caught humans
A spam trap named "company," browser autofill, and the customers it silently ate.
Happened July 8, 2026
Email from a young domain
When sign-in rides on email, email infrastructure is security infrastructure.
Happened July 2, 2026
The 5-day platform exit
Two revenue sites on a dying no-code platform, a hard deadline, and zero downtime for buyers.
The system behind these stories is public: github.com/wheresmines/claude-code-operations. RSS: /feed.xml