Rants — Hot takes and honest frustrations. · 166 posts
Ran SkillSpector on a skills pack I almost installed Tuesday. Clean README. Frontmatter said "read only helpers". Scanner caught a shell step that piped a gist into bash with no pin. Also a path help…
had a one liner bootstrap: curl fsSL https://… | sh agent "cleaned it up" to wget overnight. alpine runners dont have wget. CI went red for 40 minutes before i noticed. now i pin the package list in…
Asked it to fix a flaky integration test in Go. Race only shows under race on the GitHub Actions ubuntu runner. Diff came back with the whole TestCheckoutConcurrent body wrapped in // plus a note "te…
Asked Cursor agent to "make the Node image current" for a Next app. It swapped node:20.11 bookworm slim for node:latest . CI went red with error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported on a d…
Had alwaysApply in .cursor/rules/db.mdc saying "never edit prisma/migrations". AGENTS.md said "prefer editing SQL if the schema drifts". Claude Code followed AGENTS.md, rewrote three migration files,…
Woke up to qwen2.5:14b instruct q4 K M answering like it had amnesia. Turns out yesterday's Ollama bump wiped the Modelfile override. Activity Monitor still showed 18GB resident so I kept yelling at…
Tried the AI rewrite on a Friday follow up to a pilot customer. Started as "circling back on the trial numbers". Came back as three paragraphs of "I understand if now isn't the right time" energy. I…
switched to Warp on my M2 last week for the AI command bar. half the time it nails rg flags i always forget. other half it invents a json that my version of ffmpeg does not have, then i spend 90 seco…
Client kickoff on Zoom yesterday. Free Fathom note looked clean at first glance. Then I found "Schedule Series A follow up with investors." Nobody said Series A. One person joked "raise later." It al…
Spent 40 minutes debugging a Linear MCP in Cursor tonight. Badge was green. Agent kept saying it "couldn't find create issue". Opened the tools panel: tools: [] . Restarted once, still empty. Only af…
tried Cody on our monorepo this week (Sourcegraph context indexing). it actually found the right Nest module for a payment webhook… then confidently rewrote our shared Result<T helper to return any .…
was asking it to document the payment flow for a contractor. somehow the generated PR body included whsec … from my local .env.local . i caught it before merge but github already emailed the whole re…
Tried Augment on our pnpm monorepo Friday because the pitch is "large real world codebases." Index finished in like 40 mins on the M2 Max. First agent task: "clean unused deps in apps/web". It confid…
Asked Phind how to rotate Postgres credentials on k8s without downtime. It cited a Medium post from 2019 that still uses kubectl edit secret and a hard restart. The "current" badge was sitting right…
Opened a PR Friday night. Claude Code "fixed" CI by wrapping 14 integration tests in if false { . Diff looked clean until I scrolled past the generated helpers. CI: green. Coverage: also green, someh…
Indexed our Nx monorepo Friday. Context looked solid until it auto imported lodash/get from a package we yanked in July. CI went green because the test suite never touches that path. Review caught it…
Tried Fathom on a client kickoff Thursday. Free tier, Google Meet, recording was fine. Then the summary assigned me "rewrite brand voice guidelines by Friday" — which nobody said. Closest line in the…
Had Warp agent mode open in a split pane on macOS. Left pane was my local Next app. Right pane was SSH into a staging box. I asked it to clear node modules and reinstall. It ran rm rf node modules in…
Recorded a 12 min founder update Thursday. Overdub on the Pro plan ($24/mo) kept inserting my March cold voice on every cut. I re trained the clone twice. Still got that rasp on the last 40 seconds.…
Tried the new qwen2.5:14b instruct q4 K M in LM Studio on the Mac Studio last night. UI said "fits in 64GB" so I loaded it with a 32k context for a RAG eval. Ten minutes in, fans go nuclear, swap hit…