On dependency risk, API deprecations, and building software that survives other people's changes.
Practical habits for building on APIs you don't control: how to read a deprecation notice, when to pin versions, and how to turn upstream chaos into calendar entries.
The engineering behind autonomous dependency intelligence: content-hash polling, deterministic extraction, LLM classification with strict schemas, and the failure modes we designed for first.
Every solo founder eventually learns the same lesson: your product's worst bugs are merged by people you've never met. This is the story of that lesson, and what we built because of it.