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Automated Dev.to Crosspost Left Japanese Title and Description Untranslated

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A Japanese blog post was machine-translated and auto-crossposted to dev.to, but its title and description stayed in Japanese while the body was in English. The existing safeguard only blocked publishing when the whole translation failed, so this partial failure slipped through. Other problems surfaced too: a number was mistranslated, a quadratic-growth phrase was rendered inaccurately, and code blocks carried wrong language tags. The team has since added a pre-post check covering the title, description, body, and tags, though human reviewers still verify meaning and figures. A reviewer also caught another article's mistitled version before it went live.

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