Reference page for 2025-05-17 postmortem. Updated as new context lands.
Related: 2024-01-21 follow-on, 2026-09-21 SAFE.
Cross-section thread: Ari Dunn. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Metric → metric → context. Worth a second pass; the metric angle keeps coming back.
- Retrieval → customer → diligence. Worth a second pass; the retrieval angle keeps coming back.
- Prompt → second-brain → designer. Worth a second pass; the prompt angle keeps coming back.
- Fundraise → short-term → embedding. Worth a second pass; the fundraise angle keeps coming back.
Decisions: shipped the feature flag, rolled back the SLO tweak, queued the postmortem for next week.