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Resilience & state · 2 min read

Find the Load Risks Before You Generate the Load

Start with the implementation, then use a deliberately bounded workload.

/carbon-load

Tariq — virtual AI testerAITariqPerformance

A load test should not begin with “let's see what happens if we send a lot of requests.”

It should begin with the product's workload, the likely bottlenecks, the allowed target, and a clear stopping condition.

/carbon-load can inspect code and server configuration read-only before any deliberate load is generated. Unbounded queries, connection limits, synchronous work, and expensive paths provide hypotheses worth investigating.

Turn a real journey into a workload

With approval, the agent can record a browser journey and its network traffic, then propose a replay workload. A useful replay handles user-specific data, authentication, and dependencies rather than sending the same captured request forever.

Multiple users need isolated identities and meaningful variation. Secrets and personal information should not become fixtures in a shared load script.

Execution starts small and increases only within the reviewed limits. Target ownership, workload shape, request ceilings, duration, and abort conditions need explicit approval.

Inspection is useful evidence of risk

/carbon-load inspect the local search implementation and deployment configuration read-only; propose a bounded workload, but do not generate traffic yet

The report must distinguish a static bottleneck hypothesis from a measured failure. A generated script is not an executed benchmark. A successful local workload does not establish production capacity.

Where execution is approved, correctness matters alongside throughput. Returning incorrect data quickly is not a performance success.

AI can reduce the work required to form and adapt the experiment. It does not remove the responsibility to keep that experiment from becoming somebody else's outage.

Install CARBON at testers.ai/carbon for a supported coding agent such as Claude, Codex, or Cursor.

— Jason Arbon, CEO testers.ai