Treat llms.txt like an API contract or you’ll ship outages
We watched answer engines hallucinate because llms.txt drifted; the fix wasn’t “better prompts,” it was versioned contracts.
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Notes on agentic development.
How to turn AI into real shipping speed: audits, workflows, modernization, and the tactics that hold up in production.
More writing: Ironcrest Software blog and 815 Media blog.
If you can’t disable it instantly, it’s not an AI feature
A kill-switch isn’t paranoia—it’s the difference between a safe rollout and a compliance incident you can’t explain.
Read moreThe model is easy; audits fail on traceability and kill-switches
A regulated-industry AI incident taught me: you can pass an audit and still be unsafe unless traceability is engineered.
Read moreWooCommerce race bugs taught us to treat cache like a state machine
We shipped a “safe” WooCommerce stock flow, then watched orders oversell by 0.8% until we fixed the race, not the symptoms.
Read morellms.txt isn’t SEO—it’s verifiability for agents and humans
We stopped optimizing for rankings and started optimizing for citations; conversions followed because answers became checkable.
Read moreWhy Headless WordPress Fails (And When It Actually Saves You)
Headless WordPress is the right answer 20% of the time. Here is how to pick that 20% without blowing up your checkout.
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