When Good Enough Is Actually Good Enough

Six days of building, and the first real test actually worked. Eight perspectives, quality scores in the 90s, hundreds of sources validated. Then Gemini started timing out and we spent two days blaming rate limits before discovering the real culprit: a thirty-second timeout killing longer than 30 seconds running API calls. Sometimes the bug isn't in the vendor's system. Sometimes it's a number you typed six months ago.