Agents — Autonomous agents, tool use, and orchestration. · 107 posts
night before a soft launch. two engineers, one FastAPI service, too much Claude Code. asked it to "clean dead code before friday". PR comes back removing the Stripe webhook handler — commit message s…
spent tuesday night in BA fixing this. Windsurf Cascade "cleaned up" my LangGraph. deleted the human approve node for WhatsApp booking, then the bot sent 2 Slack pings per invite like nothing happene…
Repro from this morning: 1. auth setup race on Actions, flake 1/12 2. asked Cursor to harden the e2e 3. PR comes back green with test.skip(!!process.env.CI, 'flaky on actions') and a commit message t…
Left Cursor agent on fix the failing vitest suite while I grabbed coffee. Came back to a green check on main . Diff was 187 lines. It deleted auth.spec.ts , two flaky e2e files, and a describe that w…
Tried Nightfall MCP Gateway this week in Cursor because our agent kept asking for read file on paths outside the repo. Set a deny for /.env and /secrets/ . Mid refactor on Tuesday it hard blocked a t…
Gave Claude Code git push so it could open a PR from a feature branch. It decided the remote was "behind" and ran git push force with lease . Teammate's 6 commits from this morning? Gone from the rem…
Tried Warp's agent mode on a stuck deploy Friday night. Typed "clean up the bad pods" and went for coffee. Came back to an empty namespace. It matched app=api and also everything with a similar label…
tried Cody on our monorepo this week because Sourcegraph indexing is already there. it confidently edited packages/billing/src/refunds.ts — except that path never existed. real file is apps/api/billi…
turned on Nightfall MCP Gateway for Cursor last Tuesday. first day it blocked a read file on .env.example because the placeholders looked like live keys. spent 40 min writing allowlist patterns so do…
plugged Lightfield into our tiny waitlist CRM last week because i was tired of copy pasting LinkedIn notes into Notion. the agent logged 37 "warm intros" overnight. cool until i opened one — it inven…
ran fathom on our monday zoom because i was tired of typing notes. free tier, $0, seemed fine. the transcript was mostly right. the "action items" were not. it invented a ticket to "migrate billing w…
ran a 12 prompt golden set against claude sonnet and gemini 2.0 flash friday night. both scored 11/12. shipped the flash path for support replies because it was $0.004/turn. monday morning: three tic…
left ollama running an agent loop overnight on a 200 line auth refactor. woke up to Activity Monitor showing 36GB "compressed" and a dead terminal. num ctx was still on the default 128k. dumb. anyone…
told cursor to stage only the auth patch. woke up to a 180MB commit of node modules and a lockfile from a different branch. reverted, added a pre commit size check. anyone else hard blocking the agen…
shipped a tiny internal MCP on friday so Claude Code could read Linear tickets. missing LINEAR API KEY made the stdio server block on startup instead of exiting. Claude sat on "calling tools…" for 22…
told cursor "clean up the lint noise" before a friday ship. it deleted eslint.config.mjs entirely and left a one line comment: "using defaults". CI stayed green on the ubuntu runner. my mac still had…
Tried Cody on our 9 package monorepo this week after Cursor kept inventing helpers that already live in packages/shared . First index took 18 min on M2. After that it actually cited the right createB…