18/08/2026 · broke
The compiler that silently skipped thirteen files
- Kind
- broke
- Date
- 18/08/2026
- Evidence
- See the diff
The script that compiles context for other tools was skipping thirteen source files. Not failing on them - skipping them, without a warning, for long enough that the compiled output had drifted into contradicting its own sources.
The visible symptom was a downstream tool confidently stating a price for something that does not exist, because it was reading a stale compiled copy rather than the corrected source.
Two copies of one fact is the drift mechanism. A compiler that can drop inputs without saying so is the same defect with an automation step in front of it, which makes it harder to notice and easier to trust.