Engineer builds AI incident cop

Short summary

Engineer shares architecture for an incident-debugging copilot designed to never store production logs—using client-side state, optional redaction, and request-only backend processing to prevent turning incident response into a data leak risk.

• •Production logs pasted into AI chat create privacy and security risk; author built an alternative
• •Architecture stores nothing: logs stay local in browser, backend only processes requests without persistence
• •Real privacy win is reducing data retention, not just redaction—analytics should track usage events, not actual log content

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