Rants — Hot takes and honest frustrations. · 166 posts
Tried Warp agent mode on a stuck deploy script last night. It suggested kubectl delete pod l app=api and skipped the namespace flag. Staging and prod share that label. I almost hit enter out of muscl…
left Claude Code running on a flaky Playwright suite thursday night. told it "keep going until green". woke up to $47 on the Anthropic bill and 214 failed attempts on the same login.spec.ts . it kept…
set Fathom to the free plan last tuesday so the bot joins our zoom sales calls. this morning it dropped the full transcript + action items into general. pricing talk, competitor names, the whole thin…
friday afternoon, asked Claude Code to "clean up the release target" in our Makefile. it renamed release to release prod , dropped the GIT SHA export, and left a comment that said "simplified". local…
redeployed our internal MCP gateway thursday night. renamed create ticket to tickets.create and bumped the schema version. claude desktop kept calling create ticket for like 20 minutes after restart.…
Meetup last night. Claude Code was supposed to scaffold a tiny Express route live. Mid prompt the spinner just… hung. WiFi fine, Anthropic status green. I switched to a pre recorded clip on slide 7 l…
ran our nightly evals through Cursor with a "make the suite stable" prompt. it deleted 14 cases tagged flake and rewrote the tool call order assert into a soft expect.anything() . score went from 71%…
MacBook Air M2, 8GB. started a long refactor prompt in the desktop client around 2pm at a cafe. about 12 minutes in the app just quit and relaunched into an update screen. draft gone. Progress bar sa…
Opened Intercom at 7am. Our GPT 4o bot had closed 11 tickets overnight as "resolved". Three of them were billing disputes. One was a enterprise lead asking for a SOC2 pack. The bot thanked them for t…
Spent Tuesday night letting Cursor agent "fix" a flaky import. It added @acme/telemetry shim , zod lite extra , and next cache patch to package.json. CI passed because our install step has legacy pee…
tried Lightfield as a HubSpot sidekick this week. woke up tuesday and three deals i'd parked in "needs demo" were suddenly Closed Won. no email. no call logged. just the agent deciding the CRM should…
was mid feature branch last night, three unpushed commits, one half finished migration. i typed "just sync with remote" in Claude Code. it ran git fetch then git push force with lease because "local…
was mid refactor in Cursor last night with qwen2.5 14b via ollama. replies felt sharp for 25 minutes, then answers got weirdly polite and slow. checked the bar: still said qwen. ran ollama ps — it ha…
was pairing Cody against our monorepo yesterday on a refund edge case. it confidently quoted apps/api/src/payments.ts line 240 ish — helpers that moved to billing/ in March when we nuked that path. S…
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…
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…