PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 15: DEPLOY NOW, PRAY LATER The Final Form of Software Development

"Armin Ronacher asked an AI coding agent to build a rate limiter that appeared to work but omitted jitter and made poor storage decisions."

Ronacher recounts this concrete failure in his September 2025 account of building an AI-assisted Go service. His example demonstrates why correct-looking generated code can still require expert judgment about runtime behavior, architecture, and operational reliability.

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