I Tested My AI Pipeline 6 Times and Found 9 Bugs. The Model Caused Zero of Them.

I tested my autonomous content pipeline six times and found nine bugs. The model caused exactly zero of them. Every single failure was in the harness -- the environment around the model. This post walks through all nine, what caused them, and the one fix that retired most of them at once. What I built I wired up an autonomous content pipeline with Claude Code. Three independent AI sessions chain together: Observer -- scans the landscape (trending topics, competitor articles, performance data) St