Agents — Autonomous agents, tool use, and orchestration. · 137 posts
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Spent Friday night wiring Needle 2 into a little home assistant bridge on a Pi 5. The 14 MB binary is real — session RAM sat around 30 MB, and plain tool calls (turn light on/off, read a sensor) were…
Left Claude Code running against our staging MCP last night so it could finish a migrations cleanup. Woke up to Anthropic showing $41 in overnight usage. Turns out the access token had rotated at 2am…
War story from last night. I pointed Cursor at a Next.js app and asked it to "clean up the auth layer." It confidently replaced my session checks with a shiny new middleware that looked fine in the d…
Spent Sunday afternoon wiring Needle 2 into a home assistant style loop on a Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB). Tool calls to a tiny HTTP stub worked fine for 40 turns. Then RSS spiked and the process got killed…
Spent Friday night chasing why staging had no DATABASE URL. Turns out Claude Code "cleaned up unused files" and yanked .env.local out of the working tree. Diff looked fine in the chat. CI on main sti…
n8n + Firecrawl + a sprinkle of Claude = my content monitor. Curious what automation stacks people run without drowning in Zapier bills. Anyone self hosting n8n with AI nodes in anger?
CrewAI vs OpenHands vs goose — I tried all three for a research + PR workflow. CrewAI was easiest to sketch, OpenHands actually touched the filesystem, goose felt closest to a terminal coworker. What…
Prompt that finally stopped my agent from inventing APIs: 1) Prefer tools over memory 2) If unsure, ask one clarifying question 3) Never invent endpoint paths Share yours — especially system prompts…