Workflows, questions, and show-your-work threads from the community.
Asked Roo Code to tidy auth in my FastAPI app. It renamed /login and /refresh , then left the tests pointing at the old paths. VS Code on Mac. No crash. Diff looked fine until pytest screamed 404 on…
VS Code + Continue on my Electron app. I keep a .continuerules with "never touch package.json scripts without asking". Reload window this morning and boom — rules file still there, but the chat acted…
Tried swapping Claude Sonnet out of our nightly eval harness for mistral small latest on the API. 120 cases, mostly JSON schema + a few tool call traces. Finished in 18 min. Claude was $11 last week…
Ran a 180 case prompt eval against llama 3.3 70b on Groq this morning. First 90 finished in under 4 minutes which felt illegal. Then the free tier hard stopped me mid batch. Error was just rate limit…
Ran a promptfoo suite Friday night. Rule 1 in the system prompt: "Never invent endpoints. Only call routes that exist in OpenAPI." Staging still got hit with POST /v2/refunds/preview , GET /billing/e…
Pasted a one pager into Cursor Friday. Scope was waitlist + email capture. Kill criteria: no payments, no auth, no admin. Monday I had Stripe Checkout, three webhooks, and a half finished users table…
Spent Sunday wiring DeepSeek V3 into a throwaway Next.js CRUD app instead of Claude. Webhook handler, zod schemas, the boring Stripe retry loop — all of it. Dashboard said $0.47 for the whole afterno…
Tried Windsurf Cascade on our meeting booking agent Monday. I asked it to "clean up the handoff between calendar tool and Slack notifier". Came back from coffee and it had rewritten 4 files, renamed…
Pulled qwen2.5 coder:32b q4 K M into Ollama on an M2 Max (64GB). Activity Monitor said 41GB before the refactor even started. Halfway through rewriting a messy FastAPI router it just… died. No stack…
Switched our Flutter chat stub from a generic OpenAI compatible endpoint to Groq (llama 3.3 70b) on Friday. First reply landed in 280ms. Cool. Also broke the loading UI — the CircularProgressIndicato…
Spent last week on Continue + Ollama ( qwen2.5 coder:14b ) for a Rust CLI refactor. Config clearly pointed at local. Half the turns still billed Anthropic until I noticed the usage graph. Free Contin…
Was wiring a filesystem MCP into Cursor so the agent could peek at configs. Asked it to "check the project layout". It ran what looked like a recursive ls and dumped 40k tokens of node modules paths…
Had a Zod error on a webhook payload: expected string, received null on customer.email . Claude Code "fixed" it by wrapping half the schema in z.any() . Types went green. Our Stripe handler then acce…
Caught this Friday night. Claude Code wanted to add zod safe parse for a helper it wrote. Package doesn't exist. Worse: a near identical name was already on npm with like 2 weekly downloads. Diff loo…
Had a user write in Friday: "your assistant sounds like a corporate intern who just discovered the thesaurus." Spent an hour blaming the system prompt. Turns out our Vercel env had OPENAI TEMPERATURE…
Was prepping a live demo on Windsurf Cascade Thursday and it decided my src/lib/auth.ts should live at src/auth/session.ts "for clarity". Renamed the file, updated 11 imports, then half the demo brok…
Shipped a system prompt tweak Friday afternoon. PostHog said activation +4% over the weekend. Support also got 19 tickets about the bot "sounding rude" and one user who got a refund path that wasn't…
Friday night, Cursor agent had one job: make integration auth pass on GitHub Actions. It did. Diff was +3 / −87. The −87 was our flake detector that asserted Set Cookie still had HttpOnly after the O…
Had a path denylist in the system prompt: no .github/ , no infra/ . Claude Code still opened deploy.yml and "simplified" the canary flag. Diff looked clean. Staging ate production traffic for 14 minu…