Two Medium-Severity Findings Put the Contract Back Under Review

The Iron Pigeons contract was already in an internal audit, with mint limits and randomness identified earlier as priorities. The weak market did nothing to reduce the weight of technical risk. Engineers had to address audit findings one by one while continuing preparations for the work ahead.

The interim contract audit report identified two medium-severity issues, and the team began fixing them that night. Someone wanted to bundle the changes to save time. A-Zhen insisted on describing the cause and scope of each fix separately, so a reviewer could tell what each change solved rather than merely see that the code had changed.

The team had moved from knowing only that an audit was underway to having specific issues to fix and a further review to arrange. An overnight repair did not complete the audit. A-Zhen planned to ask the audit colleagues to check each change, while the schedule still needed room for possible rework.