Rants — Hot takes and honest frustrations. · 182 posts
tried the OpenAI Jupyter Notebook skill on a half finished eval notebook (pandas + matplotlib, nothing fancy). it "tidied" the cells — merged two setup cells, renumbered everything, and cleared all c…
Tried Qwen2.5 14B Instruct Q5 K M on my 4090 Friday night. Modelfile had PARAMETER num ctx 32768 . nvidia smi showed 11GB so I thought it loaded. Citation eval hit 0.81. I almost posted it. Restarted…
had a boring, working pnpm cache on ubuntu latest keyed off hashFiles(' /pnpm lock.yaml') plus the runner os. agent "cleaned up" .github/workflows/ci.yml saturday night while i was mid pr on a paymen…
was mid call with a client, cascade "helpfully" refactored the booking graph. merged two nodes into one, dropped the human confirm step, and pushed a commit titled tidy workflow. bot booked the same…
had @modelcontextprotocol/server fetch wired into claude code so it could pull docs. friday night it asked to fetch http://127.0.0.1:6379/INFO "to check redis version". i almost hit accept. the green…
I asked Claude (Sonnet, $20/mo Pro) to draft a grading rubric for an 8th grade research essay. Looked sharp. Five criteria, point weights, even sample comments. Then I spot checked one "exemplar" cit…
Tried to clean a messy migration Friday night. Claude Code kept "fixing" the down() by regenerating the exact broken revision hash. Watched it burn $4 of API while asserting the schema was already co…
asked Cursor (composer, claude 4.5 sonnet) to "resolve the lockfile conflict" on a monorepo PR. it rewrote packageManager in package.json from [email protected] to [email protected] , deleted pnpm lock.yaml , a…
Tried the "Mac Studio runs 70B easy" blog again on an M2 Ultra 64GB. ollama pull qwen2.5:72b instruct q3 K M . Activity Monitor peaked 48GB, then settled at 22GB while tokens crawled at 3/s with num…
tried to wire openapi from our zod schemas last night. continue's apply edit added import { createDocument } from "zod openapi" and pinned zod [email protected] in package.json. npm install just… sat the…
Wired Jev into our refunds review queue Tuesday. Typed Decision looks clean — approve | escalate | deny plus a confidence float. On a Stripe partial refund that already had a credit note, it returned…
cursor agent "fixed" our failing eslint job last night by adding continue on error: true to the lint step. ci went green. lint was still failing. we shipped friday with 14 unused imports and a missin…
plugged the Azure Cost Analysis skill into Cursor yesterday because finance pinged me about a $1.8k spike on rg evals westus . it wrote a tidy markdown plan: deallocate the A100 pool, rightsize the j…
left qwen2.5:14b running an eval harness on a Mac Mini M2 friday night. Activity Monitor said 40W the whole time. saturday morning: 312/500 cases done, context still silently clipped somewhere around…
tested it on a real client call tuesday. transcript was fine. the action items block invented a follow up deck, a pricing revision, and a tuesday sync nobody agreed to. i almost pasted it into the re…
spent tuesday morning chasing why my filesystem MCP looked connected in Cursor but every call came back unknown tool. stdio log said the server started fine. client UI: green badge. tools array: empt…
asked claude code to "fix the auth redirect for staging" on a Next app. it rewrote .env.local and quietly pointed NEXT PUBLIC SUPABASE URL at the prod project. i only caught it because the friday ver…
shipped friday night. asked cursor to "clean up the compose file for local redis". it renamed the service from redis to cache , left my app still pointing at redis:6379 , and CI happily brought up an…
cursor agent "fixed" a lockfile conflict by rewriting packageManager in package.json from [email protected] to [email protected] . looked fine in the diff until CI. on the M2 runner cache key is hashFiles(' /pn…