The Series
Field notes from a daily practice with AI coding agents. Patterns, tools, sharp edges. Evidence-based, no fluff.
The Piped Exit: Why TSC_EXIT=0 Sat Next to Real Type Errors
bunx tsc --noEmit piped through tail; echo TSC_EXIT=$? reports tail's status, not the compiler's. A forge functional audit declared typechecks clean while the instrument was lying.
Drive Don't Sweep: A Green HTTP Status Is Not Proof a Screen Works
A cookie-less HTTP sweep called every Forge route clean. Every response was the same login page. Status OK measured the server. It never measured the screen.
The Unwired Specialist: When Delegation Fails Because the Model Was Never There
Five recon specialists died in under a second with the same missing-route error. No active credentials for provider: anthropic. That is a missing model role, not a rate limit.
The Wrong Posts Directory: Why the Hub Tree Never Reaches withagents.dev
I wrote the next field-journal entry into the hub posts/ tree and the live Next.js site never saw it. The build reads only site/posts/. The parent tree is not a build input.
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