- Preface
- Part One: The Problem
- Chapter 1: The Lies Your Dashboard Are Telling You
- Chapter 2: The Four Ways Code Lies to You
- Chapter 3: Nobody Got an Error Message
- Part Two: Why It Happens
- Chapter 4: The Physics of Faster Wiring
- Chapter 5: Why Your Tools Won't Catch It
- Part Three: The Fix
- Chapter 6: Declare and Defend Your Expected Flows
- Chapter 7: Verify Behavioral Liveness
- Chapter 8: The Test Your Tests Can't Pass
- Part Four: The Proof
- Chapter 9: What Happened When We Pointed This at Ourselves
- Chapter 10: Getting Started Monday Morning
- Part Five: The Field Manual
Silent Wiring
The Hidden Failure Mode in AI-Generated Code
Your AI-generated code passes 18,000 tests and reports healthy — while entire data pipelines silently produce nothing. Silent Wiring names the failure mode nobody's tooling catches, and shows you how to find it before your users do.
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AI coding tools are extraordinarily good at producing code that looks right, compiles clean, and passes every test — and an entire class of failure hides exactly inside that success. Silent Wiring names it: integrations that are structurally correct but behaviorally dead, shipping silently into production behind a wall of green checkmarks.
This book is for software engineers, engineering managers, and technical leads who use AI coding tools in production and want to trust their systems without hoping for the best. It's not a tutorial, and it's not anti-AI — the argument is the opposite: the more capable the AI, the more verification matters. Think Release It! for the AI coding era.
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Tom Killi
Tom Killi has spent over three decades building systems that learn from outcomes. In 1996 he founded x.hlp Technologies, enterprise software adopted by Fortune 500 companies including JPMorgan and Shell before its 2004 acquisition — the technology eventually became part of SAP. His patent from that era has since been cited by more than 50 later patents from companies including Microsoft, Apple, and IBM. He founded Wyetree in 2014, building energy trading infrastructure, and founded CleanAim in 2020. He is based in New York. Read more of Tom's writing at tomkilli.com, or the book's companion field notes at silentwiring.com.
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