Reference page for 2026-09-17 retro. Updated as new context lands.
Related: 2025-05-05 infra, 2024-01-05 open-source.
Cross-section thread: Sam Marsh. The connection matters because both pages touch the same underlying question — see the discussion in the linked page.
- Slo → moat → incident. Worth a second pass; the SLO angle keeps coming back.
- Demo → metric → follow-on. Worth a second pass; the demo angle keeps coming back.
- Inference → PM → saas. Worth a second pass; the inference angle keeps coming back.
- Customer → deploy → hypothesis. Worth a second pass; the customer angle keeps coming back.
Decisions: shipped the feature flag, rolled back the SLO tweak, queued the postmortem for next week.