The local test suite was green. Eleven of eleven. I told the agent we had test coverage, and I said commit and push. We shipped an SDK that had never once been compiled by the chip's real compiler. I write backend systems. I do not write firmware. The project generates C code for a microcontroller, and the generated code had to compile inside CDK — the vendor's build environment — on a Windows machine, against a RISC-V cross-compiler, inside a packaging system I had never used. None of that e...