Anthropic published a postmortem recently. The document was specific, technical, self-critical, and honest about what their full pre-release pipeline failed to catch. Three separate issues degraded Claude Code between March 4 and April 20. All three were fixed by v2.1.116 on April 20, and usage limits were reset for every subscriber on April 23. But the document is also a mirror. The conditions it describes — continuous change across weights, prompts, scaffolds, and caches; evaluation coverage that trails release velocity; internal dogfooding that drifts from external usage; regressions that hide inside normal output variance for weeks — are not conditions unique to one lab or one product. They are the working conditions of the entire AI-assisted software industry right now. We are in the era where AI coding has lifted the ceiling on how fast teams can ship, and we have not yet lifted the ceiling on how fast we can verify what we shipped.…