TECHNICAL PARABLE

Migration Had a Personality

Migration Had a Personality

Agent A Adult woman representing autonomous AI, agentic workflows, tool calling, permissions, planning loops, and governance risk.

"The migration plan is deterministic."

Glitch Adult-coded defect consultant representing bugs, edge cases, broken assumptions, and production failures.

"The system disagrees emotionally."

Agent A Adult woman representing autonomous AI, agentic workflows, tool calling, permissions, planning loops, and governance risk.

"It should copy rows from old to new."

Tiny CTO Very short adult CTO, title host, narrator, calm adult in chaos, present-tense production-chaos explainer.

"A migration moves data, behavior, assumptions, and every shortcut nobody documented."

TINY CTO LESSON

The chaos was predictable.

Migrations need rehearsal, observability, rollback paths, and respect for hidden behavior.