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Three quiet bugs hiding in a cross-service feature
Shipping a feature across four services meant coordinating an AI backend, a fare search service, and two frontend components. Along the way: a silent configuration bug, a duplicate event contract, and an HTML injection path.
Shipping a conversational search flow across services
Cross-service work: shipping an end-to-end conversational flight search flow, instrumenting an MCP server with privacy-aware observability, improving AI coding assistant context injection, and cleaning up inconsistent naming across the codebase.
Keeping orchestration in your code, not your prompt
A reflection on where coordination logic should live when building AI assistants into production systems, and why application-layer orchestration beats prompt-driven coordination.