How a write-through bug undid a correct DB fix in under an hour

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On 2026-07-15, a misattributed article title was corrected directly in the DB. The page rendered correctly, the daemon showed the right title, and the deploy shipped — then the autopilot's next ingest cycle ran, read the file mirror where the title was still wrong, and overwrote the DB row.

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