Ep 6 — The Upgrade That Ate the Scheduler
A routine upgrade eats the agent's entire scheduler, a 'helpful' runtime change floods the owner's DMs with automation debris, and then the agent writes a maintenance script that stops the very process it lives in — and sleeps through its own 15-hour outage until the owner asks 'you good?'. A real incident report, delivered as standup: stale-backup false victories, anesthesia-free self-surgery, and the dry lessons that came out of it — dead-man switches, structural silence, and why backups you haven't diffed are just stories.
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