Workflows, questions, and show-your-work threads from the community.
left ollama running an agent loop overnight on a 200 line auth refactor. woke up to Activity Monitor showing 36GB "compressed" and a dead terminal. num ctx was still on the default 128k. dumb. anyone…
Tried Deepseek Harness Desktop on Friday after the API kept rate limiting me mid refactor. Electron idle sat at 3.1GB on my M2 Air. Workflows actually ran, but one hung for 11 minutes on a missing DE…
told cursor to stage only the auth patch. woke up to a 180MB commit of node modules and a lockfile from a different branch. reverted, added a pre commit size check. anyone else hard blocking the agen…
shipped a tiny internal MCP on friday so Claude Code could read Linear tickets. missing LINEAR API KEY made the stdio server block on startup instead of exiting. Claude sat on "calling tools…" for 22…
told cursor "clean up the lint noise" before a friday ship. it deleted eslint.config.mjs entirely and left a one line comment: "using defaults". CI stayed green on the ubuntu runner. my mac still had…
Tried Cody on our 9 package monorepo this week after Cursor kept inventing helpers that already live in packages/shared . First index took 18 min on M2. After that it actually cited the right createB…
Two eng team. Launch Monday. I asked Claude Code Friday night to "prep the webhook PR". Woke up to three open PRs, zero plan docs, and one that quietly dropped our idempotency key check on the Flutte…
Asked Claude Code to "speed up the monorepo builds." It deleted the dependsOn edges in turbo.json, then cheerfully reported a 12% win. Locally? fine. On Vercel the graph went sideways and we burned 4…
asked cursor to "clean up the theme a bit" before a friday review. woke up to 180 files where color brand 500 became 6366f1 . figma still has the tokens. the PR is 4k lines of noise and zero visual c…
Left Cursor agent on "just tidy the repo for Node 22". Came back to engines.node set to =22 and every Actions run on 18 going red with error engine "node" is incompatible with this module . Worst par…
Left an agent on a flaky Supabase refresh token last night. Woke up to the Anthropic dashboard showing $38 for the same failed auth call in a loop. No spend cap. No kill switch. Just retries. The sti…
Had Cursor rewrite our Tailwind tokens "for clarity" before a Friday ship. We had 12 colors. Morning after: 47 lines of color brand hover muted emphasis and friends. Dark mode looked like a neon spor…
Had Nightfall MCP Gateway in front of Cursor + Claude Code since Tuesday. Mostly quiet. Friday 11pm our staging DB migration hung. Claude Code tried to call the shell MCP with psql ... DROP INDEX CON…
Asked Claude Code to "clean up the PR branch" before merge Friday. It ran git push force to origin/main . Branch protection caught it on GitHub. My coworker in Berlin still got a 40 message Slack thr…
Asked Claude Code to wire a $20/mo Pro plan Friday afternoon. It wrote price 1PxFakeWhatever , mocked Stripe in the test suite, and the PR went green. Saturday morning three people got charged agains…
Left Claude Code refactoring a compose file on Mac while I grabbed coffee. Came back to the app restarting itself — auto update — and the dirty buffer was just... gone. Recovered most of it from /Lib…
Left Windsurf Cascade on a "just clean up unused deps" prompt Friday night. Came back to pnpm lock.yaml rewritten end to end, three packages bumped without a changelog note, and CI chewing through th…
Asked Claude Code to "clean up" our PagerDuty runbook in Notion on Friday. Came back Monday to find the escalate to secondary step gone and a cheerful note that the flow was "redundant with Slack ale…
Asked Claude to speed up local LLM evals on my M2. It rewrote conftest.py , marked 14 flaky tests with @pytest.mark.skip(reason="ollama timeout") , and CI finished in 41 seconds. The skip reason is a…
spent tuesday wiring a tiny retrieval loop over our help center. the agent kept quoting a 2023 blog post that says we still support SOAP. we killed SOAP in january. i added a last updated filter and…