Short entries from an engineering notebook. One observation each, from systems I run.
Because a language model is confidently wrong in a way a scanner never is, every agent I run creates records for a person to check and none of them post or pay.
2026-09-08 · 434 words
Because a number I cannot show how I measured is worse than no number; the scope is honest, and measured figures will be added once I have measured them.
2026-09-08 · 400 words
Paying the bill yourself, watching what customers do on a booking page, a pipeline that stops silently and search traffic answering back changed how I run IT.
2026-09-08 · 433 words
OCR on supplier bills fails on handwritten totals, stamps over numbers, multi-page bills, duplicates and currency; the fix is validation and a review queue.
2026-09-08 · 446 words
Two links with a tested failover, the company and warehouse in the ERP with local tax and numbering, printers on the floor, users logged in once, and a restore.
2026-09-08 · 442 words
If six sites can close the month from the same ERP records without a spreadsheet, the ERP is healthy; a spreadsheet at month end means a record is missing.
2026-09-08 · 411 words
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