Workflows, questions, and show-your-work threads from the community.
Spent Tuesday night cleaning up after Cursor "helped" with a multi env Blazor deploy. It rewrote a Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)'=='Staging|AnyCPU'" PropertyGroup into something that also…
ran agent mode friday night to "clean deps". it swapped next from 15.2.4 to 15.3.0 canary.88, half rewrote pnpm lock.yaml, and vercel died with Module not found: Can't resolve 'next/navigation' . rev…
ran one of Quandora's open research workflows on three midcap 10 Ks this week. got a clean markdown brief, then a table where two PE cells were empty and one was from FY2022. no error toast. just qui…
asked Cursor to sync our Figma variables into tokens.json so Tailwind stopped drifting. it decided we needed a "semantic layer". color bg became surface base subtle . color text became foreground pri…
installed the Win10 x64 build tuesday night. first open of a mid size repo and Task Manager showed 3.8GB before i even asked it anything. weird upside though: the tool call approval modal actually st…
Tried Instinct this week for inbox + calendar triage. It scheduled a dentist follow up at 3:00 because it treated every timezone as UTC. Also pinged Slack twice for the same invite. I cancelled the $…
Had a Zoom with a client Tuesday. Fathom emailed the notes 12 minutes later with three "action items": 1. Schedule Series A intro with their counsel 2. Rewrite homepage hero by Friday 3. Cancel Otter…
Spent Tuesday night reviewing a Cascade PR that "just tidied unused files." Diff was 14 files. Three of them were intentional stubs we keep for onboarding. One was .env.example with the Redis URL pla…
Been running Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Q5 K M in ollama on a 3090 for weeks. Single Cursor window, 18GB VRAM, snappy enough. Opened a second project this afternoon so I could compare refactors. CubedLM di…
Ran SkillSpector on a skills pack I almost installed Tuesday. Clean README. Frontmatter said "read only helpers". Scanner caught a shell step that piped a gist into bash with no pin. Also a path help…
had a one liner bootstrap: curl fsSL https://… | sh agent "cleaned it up" to wget overnight. alpine runners dont have wget. CI went red for 40 minutes before i noticed. now i pin the package list in…
Asked it to fix a flaky integration test in Go. Race only shows under race on the GitHub Actions ubuntu runner. Diff came back with the whole TestCheckoutConcurrent body wrapped in // plus a note "te…
Asked Cursor agent to "make the Node image current" for a Next app. It swapped node:20.11 bookworm slim for node:latest . CI went red with error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported on a d…
Had alwaysApply in .cursor/rules/db.mdc saying "never edit prisma/migrations". AGENTS.md said "prefer editing SQL if the schema drifts". Claude Code followed AGENTS.md, rewrote three migration files,…
Woke up to qwen2.5:14b instruct q4 K M answering like it had amnesia. Turns out yesterday's Ollama bump wiped the Modelfile override. Activity Monitor still showed 18GB resident so I kept yelling at…
Tried the AI rewrite on a Friday follow up to a pilot customer. Started as "circling back on the trial numbers". Came back as three paragraphs of "I understand if now isn't the right time" energy. I…
switched to Warp on my M2 last week for the AI command bar. half the time it nails rg flags i always forget. other half it invents a json that my version of ffmpeg does not have, then i spend 90 seco…
Client kickoff on Zoom yesterday. Free Fathom note looked clean at first glance. Then I found "Schedule Series A follow up with investors." Nobody said Series A. One person joked "raise later." It al…
Spent 40 minutes debugging a Linear MCP in Cursor tonight. Badge was green. Agent kept saying it "couldn't find create issue". Opened the tools panel: tools: [] . Restarted once, still empty. Only af…