Field report · Case 001
Our first measured migration: TypeScript 5.9 to 6.0
What a real private-pilot migration cost, where it failed, and why a red check was the most useful result.
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Dependency engineering, measured.
Field notes from the boundary between an available update and a safe merge—real migrations, failed checks, and the systems that tell the truth.
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FROM THE FIELD / NOTES 02—03
The system around the patch.
Practical intelligence on dependency work: where automation stops, how evidence holds, and what makes an upgrade safe to merge.
03 published notesNOTE / 02
Dependency management
Dependency bots stop where the engineering starts
Version detection is useful. Breaking upgrades still leave teams with evidence gathering, call-site changes, and CI interpretation.
NOTE / 03
CI
A green CI badge is meaningless without a commit
Why migration verdicts must be bound to immutable pull-request heads—and what to do when the base branch advances.