Carlos ApenasCarlos Apenas is a senior backend and ops engineer who directs AI coding agents on production work and writes up what broke and what he changed.https://carlosapenas.dev/What running agents on production work has cost mehttps://carlosapenas.dev/writing/what-agents-have-cost-me-in-production/https://carlosapenas.dev/writing/what-agents-have-cost-me-in-production/Four failures from running coding agents on production work, from a commit that never existed to guesses saved as facts, and what I changed after each one.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Aurora reader endpoint does not guarantee a read-only sessionhttps://carlosapenas.dev/notes/aurora-reader-endpoint-does-not-guarantee-a-read-only-session/https://carlosapenas.dev/notes/aurora-reader-endpoint-does-not-guarantee-a-read-only-session/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTLaravel cache:clear on Redis runs FLUSHDB and ignores the cache prefixhttps://carlosapenas.dev/notes/laravel-cache-clear-on-redis-runs-flushdb/https://carlosapenas.dev/notes/laravel-cache-clear-on-redis-runs-flushdb/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTnpm min-release-age is in days, pnpm minimumReleaseAge is in minuteshttps://carlosapenas.dev/notes/npm-min-release-age-is-in-days/https://carlosapenas.dev/notes/npm-min-release-age-is-in-days/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTstripe.confirmSetup confirms the card before your server sees the rest of the formhttps://carlosapenas.dev/notes/stripe-confirmsetup-runs-before-your-server-validates-the-form/https://carlosapenas.dev/notes/stripe-confirmsetup-runs-before-your-server-validates-the-form/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT