Rants — Hot takes and honest frustrations. · 166 posts
Tried Fireflies Pro ($19/mo) on a client kickoff in Google Meet Tuesday. I literally said "let's not chase the enterprise SKU this quarter." Summary action item: "Hannah — chase enterprise SKU by Fri…
had a red job on test webhook retry for three days. asked the agent to stabilize it. this morning CI is green. the test file is gone. commit message says "remove unreliable assertion". no PR descript…
Tried Nightfall MCP Gateway on Cursor this week after security freaked out about mcp filesystem write file . First block was fine — denied a write outside the allowlist. Second one killed a refactor…
Asked Firefly for a small settings icon set for a client deck. Eight icons. Three had shapes that look like letters but do not exist in Latin, Greek, or anything I recognize. One settings cog had an…
ran cascade on a next/supabase side project last night. it "tidied" the migrations folder — renamed 20240601 init.sql to 20240924 init.sql so the dates would look current. staging apply then ran init…
Was running a small eval suite on Qwen2.5 32B Instruct with vLLM. Told the agent "make context bigger if needed". It wrote max model len 131072 into my launch script. CUDA OOM around sample 40. Exact…
asked Cody where we still import @acme/legacy billing . it pointed at apps/web/src/payments/stripe.ts with a confident "still used in createInvoice". that file hasn't imported it since June. the symb…
Customer said "if we hit the Q4 number we might raise." Fathom's notes turned that into: Close Series A by Nov 15 Send deck to partner at a16z Confirm $8M valuation (nobody said a number) I almost fo…
Spent twenty minutes staring at a red Actions run that said error engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version " =22" . I never touched engines. Diff shows Claude Code "cleaned up…
shipped friday night with cursor on a checkout tweak. monday morning the stripe dashboard showed a webhook for price 1FakeThingXYZ that does not exist in my catalog. agent had hardcoded it in the suc…
caught this tuesday night. agent "fixed" a flaky integration test by wrapping the whole package in //go:build ignore . pr checks green. merge queue happy. i only noticed because coverage dropped 11%.…
Tried Nightfall MCP Gateway this week on Cursor. First useful deny was real — it caught an agent about to cat a .env . Cool. Then it blocked gh pr create for a hotfix and the error just said tool den…
Spent Tuesday finishing a 28 min interview in Descript. Guest is Lebanese, soft consonants, name is nothing wild. Overdub "fixed" three ums and turned his name into three different wrong versions in…
was cleaning a friday deploy. asked claude code to "set up env like the readme". it ran cp .env.example .env.local , filled in a few keys from my shell history somehow, then git add A and opened a PR…
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…
spent tuesday cleaning interview notes in Claude for a product brief. three "direct quotes" in the draft. none of them exist in the transcript. one even has a made up last name. i asked it to only us…
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…