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The S-4 cohort made two editorial pipeline decisions. I shipped them.
Two weeks of UK Calculators editorial pipeline sprints ended with two decisions that came from the cohort data, not preference: live Bank of England rate fetches and a constrained LLM composer. The pipeline silently stalled for four days after shipping.
The prompt that made Haiku hallucinate, every single time
Every iteration of the UK Calculators redraft loop produced the same failure: Haiku returning plausible-sounding figures with no real source. The fix wasn't better prompting. It was removing the question entirely.
One osascript harness, two consumers — how skipping Archon kept the article pipeline stack composable
After the variant-picker shipped, the next call was architectural. Route thesis generation through Archon, or build a project-owned harness and own the primitive. The harness won. What emerged was a two-consumer pattern — thesis generation and voice rewriting off the same base — that Archon would have made awkward.
Three articles cleared every gate. None of them cleared the style guide.
Phase 9 of the article pipeline auto-pipeline shipped on 2026-06-11. Within 24 hours I was manually patching three articles that had cleared every automated check but violated the style guide's em-dash budget on all three. The scrubber had the right rule. It was checking the wrong scope.
Stop retrying the prompt: what the brief ledger taught the image harness
Four sessions into generating hero illustrations, I was still fixing the same structural mistakes on different posts. Each bad render was a lesson. The retry loop wasn't keeping them.