Your demo runs on a laptop. Now deploy it in the customer's VPC with no internet egress. What breaks?

The defining Palantir-style deployment question. Everything your laptop did silently (package pulls, API calls, telemetry, auth callbacks, clock sync you never thought about) becomes a named workstream. Strong answers produce the checklist by category, not by anecdote.

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