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 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