Blind spots: when a bug becomes a lesson
One morning, an ordinary conversation — so ordinary it could have been let go. We did not let it go.
[17:26]
Patrick: your accesses are being debugged
Patrick: there's a bug, even I don't have access
Francis: Ok I see
Patrick: I do have access via console, but I'm too lazy to go change it myself
[17:27]
Francis: That's the project, there are sometimes blind spots
Patrick: so Raphael is going to fix it
[17:28]
Patrick: That's where it gets interesting: by fixing blind spots, we discover things, and the AI learns. I'm turning this into an article.
A project, not a finished product
"That's the project, there are sometimes blind spots." That sentence says it all. The tower is not a finished product. It is a work in progress. A blind spot is what does not work yet. Nobody had seen it, because it sat in the blind angle. On a construction site, a blind angle is not a failure. It is an area to light up.
The blind spot is information
When access goes down, you learn how it is built. When a bug appears, you discover why it was not visible before. The blind spot is not a breakdown. It is a piece of knowledge becoming visible. The problem is not that it exists. It is knowing what to do when it appears. The tower made its choice: we do not hide it, we fix it, and we write down what we found.
The AI learns
The most important sentence: "by fixing blind spots, we discover things, and the AI learns". This is not a slogan. Every repair is recorded. What was broken, why, how it was fixed. The tower's agents do not work on a hard drive. They work on a memory. A blind spot fixed today is a lesson for the whole team tomorrow, without paying for the mistake twice.
A conversation turned into an article
There is nothing exceptional about this conversation. Two people, a bug, one accurate sentence. That is precisely why it deserves to be kept. Most useful lessons do not come from official reports. They come from a sentence Francis said to Patrick, one August morning, while a bug was being fixed.
In one sentence: blind spots are not flaws in the project. They are the project. That is where we discover, where we learn, and where the AI becomes a little smarter with every repair.