About the Piece

"Works for me" is what a developer says when a bug report can't be reproduced, and it usually ends the conversation. This Piece turns the phrase around. It imagines a website that answers a bug report by building a copy of itself with the fix in, sends the reporter the link, and puts nothing live until the person who found the problem says the fix works for them.

The site is real: Unremarkable, a studio that designs and builds websites. The bug is real too. When this Piece was first published, the loop didn't exist. It was how we decided to build it. The same evening, the first real report went round it: that's Fix 2.

Objects

• The thread: Five emails over one afternoon: a bug report from a VoiceOver user, a link to a copy of the site with the fix in, "works for me", one word from the owner, and a thank-you.
• The design: How a self-healing website works: five steps from a reported bug to a live fix, two gates on the way, and why the person who found the bug tests the fix.
• The fix that was held: Someone reports a missing link, the loop builds it, the reporter says it works, and the second gate keeps it off the site.
• Fix 2: The first real fix: a report through the form on unremarkable.me, a mirror with the fix, a "works for me", and the change live within ten minutes.

Behind the fiction

• Real: Unremarkable and unremarkable.me. The bug in the email thread happened on 7 November 2026. The list of sites on the front page was numbered by the stylesheet, so VoiceOver read "02, 2 of 5" and gave each number twice. It was fixed that day by making the list a real numbered list, and the rule "use a numbered list, never add numerals" came out of it.
• Real: the automated check. The front page scored 10 out of 10 on WAVE, WebAIM's accessibility checker, with the bug still in it. WAVE recognised the list and gave the page full marks. None of its checks caught the numbers VoiceOver read twice. A test written for this bug could catch it. Nobody had written one.
• Invented: Nadia Okafor, who reports the bug, and the person who tries to sneak a link onto the site. Neither is real, and neither email was sent.
• Real: Fix 2. The form, the report, the copy of the site with the fix, the email, the reply and the change on the live site all happened on 7 November 2026, as written.
• Not built yet: the automatic part. In Fix 2, Claude read the report and made the fix by hand, in a conversation. The rest of The design, including the agent that runs the loop on its own, is still a plan.

More about this

• Unremarkable, the studio whose site heals itself here
• Zero Information Casualty, the standard the site is built to

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