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Developer audits Voodoo Church, finds critical bug in duplicated rules

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A developer detailed a significant bug found in the Voodoo Church system where identical rules were duplicated across different parts of the codebase, leading to silent failures. The developer spent three days auditing these duplicated rules, discovering that a critical slug format rule was written four times, with a fifth copy existing in an end-to-end test that could not detect discrepancies. The fix involved deleting the redundant rule implementations and centralizing the slug generation logic within the resolver, ensuring consistency and preventing future silent failures. AI

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Developer audits Voodoo Church, finds critical bug in duplicated rules

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Chad Priest ·

    Every copy of the rule agreed. That was the bug.

    <p>Any AI system past a certain size has the same rule written down in more than one place. A slug format. A status word. A receipt string. A retry policy. You wrote it twice because the two surfaces are in different languages, or different processes, or one of them ships to a br…

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