Gotcha: chasing a bug that was never in my code

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The build was done. Themis Lex worked on my machine, and not in the "works if you squint" way. A court clerk enters their role, describes their workflow, picks a data sensitivity level, and gets back a PDF with two sections: where AI can safely support the work, and where it must never touch it. Claude via Bedrock generates the assessment. Server-side PDF render. No accounts, no storage, session ends when the download does.

Three weeks solo, for the Women in AI Accelerator Spring 2026 Build Challenge.

Initial commit went in at 7:06pm on May 9. I pushed to AWS Amplify. Build went green. I opened the live site, filled out the form, hit submit.

Nothing.