I Let Claude Code Run My Tech Blog. A Fake Article Passed Every Quality Check.

I've been letting Claude Code autonomously run a tech blog. Topic selection, article generation, quality gates, engagement tracking. My job is tapping /approve on Telegram from my phone. 5 days in, 1,656 PV on Qiita. The numbers say it's working. But that's not what this article is about. When I went back through 5 days of modification logs, I found that AI breaks in ways completely unlike how humans break . And my quality checks caught none of it. The Design -- What Gets Automated, What Stays Human The system had three bets baked in. Bet 1: RAG can ground facts. Feed ArXiv papers and news articles into a vector DB, and the AI will write from primary sources instead of hallucinating from training data alone. Bet 2: Quality gates can block bad articles. Check word count, heading count, code blocks, logical consistency -- and articles below a threshold get rejected before publishing. Bet 3: A feedback loop enables self-improvement. Collect post-publication PV/likes/bookmarks, identify pa