Log the boring stuff now: why unattended AI pipelines need decision journals before they break
Ok_Print8251 · reddit · 2026-09-18
A developer recounts how his automated AI pipeline ran fine for weeks, then broke — and the real fix hinged on a decision he'd made but never documented, impossible to reconstruct later. His new practice: log excluded items and why, version changes, failures and actual fixes as they happen, even when they seem too trivial. His takeaway: past-you is a worse judge of what counts as boring than future-you turns out to be.
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