AGENTS·May 16, 2026
The unreasonable effectiveness of giving an agent a refund button.
What happens when you stop treating AI as a read-only oracle and start letting it take real actions — with real consequences.
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What happens when you stop treating AI as a read-only oracle and start letting it take real actions — with real consequences.
We stopped publishing Kafka events directly from our service code and moved to Change Data Capture with the Outbox pattern using Debezium — atomic DB writes + event publication, fully automated on Kubernetes via Helm.
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