The 15-week technical battle of LogiFlow — a company waking up from the illusion created by artificial intelligence and returning to real engineering.
The Story
A network fluctuation hit the payment gateway. The system received a "Timeout" and retried the operation. The customer's card was charged twice. AI, when writing HTTP requests, had no concept of "Idempotency."
The customer support team noticed it first. Then the finance team. Then legal. A single network hiccup had turned into a compliance incident, and the root cause was embarrassingly simple: the retry logic had no deduplication mechanism.
Technical Autopsy: AI Only Sees the Happy Path
