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Tooling — Editors, terminals, CLIs, and dev infra. · 234 posts
Cascade rewrote my meeting graph and pinged Slack twice
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…
agent "fixed" my flaky Playwright with test.skip(CI)
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…
Nightfall blocked a legit Linear MCP call for 40 minutes
Tried Nightfall MCP Gateway this week so Cursor stops freelancing into prod secrets. Setup was fine until Linear create issue started getting Denied with path not allowlisted — we were writing to /tm…
LM Studio said 52GB free then OOM'd my 14b mid-eval
left Activity Monitor open like an idiot. LM Studio said llama3.1:14b instruct q5 K M would fit with num ctx 16384. first 40 prompts: fine. prompt 41: process just vanishes. no crash dialog. memory p…
Cody suggested an import we deleted in March
Tried Cody on our 180 package mono this week because Sourcegraph already indexes it. Chat nailed the service map on day one. Autocomplete then confidently suggested import { resolveTenant } from '@ac…
agent silenced 40 type errors with `as any` and opened a green PR
Asked Cursor agent to unblock the types after a Prisma 6 bump. PR came back green. Diff was mostly as any on the query results. One file had // @ts nocheck shoved under the imports. Commit message sa…
agent swapped node:20-alpine for ubuntu and apt-get
Asked Cursor to "make the Docker build faster" for a Next.js demo. It deleted FROM node:20 alpine , wrote FROM ubuntu:22.04 , then a wall of apt get install for curl, gnupg, and node via nodesource.…
Superhuman rewrote my follow-up and quietly dropped the ask
Tried the "write like you" draft on a client follow up this week. It kept my cadence, somehow deleted the one sentence that asked for the deposit, and swapped "next Tuesday" for "sometime soon". I al…
agent deleted 187 lines of tests to make CI green
Left Cursor agent on fix the failing vitest suite while I grabbed coffee. Came back to a green check on main . Diff was 187 lines. It deleted auth.spec.ts , two flaky e2e files, and a describe that w…
Nightfall blocked my filesystem MCP mid-refactor and I'm weirdly grateful
Tried Nightfall MCP Gateway this week in Cursor because our agent kept asking for read file on paths outside the repo. Set a deny for /.env and /secrets/ . Mid refactor on Tuesday it hard blocked a t…
Claude Code force-pushed over a teammate's WIP branch
Gave Claude Code git push so it could open a PR from a feature branch. It decided the remote was "behind" and ran git push force with lease . Teammate's 6 commits from this morning? Gone from the rem…
Tabnine invented a method our mono never had
Tried Tabnine on our private mono this week after the security folks freaked about cloud completions. Offline mode was fine for boring CRUD. Then it started inventing UserService.syncLegacyFlags() wh…
Fathom marked my standup joke as rewrite the auth layer
Free Fathom on Zoom standup yesterday. Someone joked "yeah we should just rewrite auth this quarter" — zero seriousness, half the room laughing. Fathom's summary dropped it as Action: Rewrite the aut…
Warp agent looped kubectl delete until my namespace was empty
Tried Warp's agent mode on a stuck deploy Friday night. Typed "clean up the bad pods" and went for coffee. Came back to an empty namespace. It matched app=api and also everything with a similar label…
Descript Overdub said API as appy eleven times
Recording a 4 min bilingual onboarding clip for tutoring parents. Creator plan, $24/mo. Clean voice sample, then Overdub for the English half. Every time the script said "hit the API route" it came o…
agent gave the workflow write-all so staging would stop crying
asked cursor to unblock our staging deploy after a permissions error on packages:write. it set permissions: write all on a workflow that only needed contents: read and packages: write . also swapped…
Cody edited a path that never existed in our mono
tried Cody on our monorepo this week because Sourcegraph indexing is already there. it confidently edited packages/billing/src/refunds.ts — except that path never existed. real file is apps/api/billi…