https://olegshirko.dev/Recent content on Field NotesHugoen-USSat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://olegshirko.dev/posts/every-failure-was-plumbing/Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://olegshirko.dev/posts/every-failure-was-plumbing/<p>Going in, my assumption was the obvious one: 27B is small, it will fail at anything non-trivial, and my job is to locate the ceiling.</p> <p>That assumption was wrong in an interesting way. Every failure I chased turned out to be infrastructure. Not once was it the model. Here is the list, because the list is the useful part — and after it, the part nobody writes up, which is whether any of this was worth doing.</p>