The Runtime Was Dead Long Before the Dashboard Noticed

This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge

At 12:00 PM during the Cerebral Valley Google I/O Hackathon, RepoProbe attached itself to a generated FastAPI repository that looked production ready from almost every conventional angle.

The container booted inside Google's Antigravity sandbox without instability. Docker compilation layers completed cleanly. The ASGI runtime mounted correctly. Health probes stabilized almost immediately. Gemini 3.5 Flash summarized the repository as a distributed inference backend coordinating asynchronous workers through Redis queues and MCP orchestration layers.

Nothing failed during shallow inspection.

The repository structure looked convincing enough that most engineers would stop investigating after the first few minutes. Route boundaries were separated correctly from worker execution paths. OpenTelemetry instrumentation wrapped request lifecycles properly. Retry handlers existed. Queue semantics looked believable. The logs looked believable too.