Rants — Hot takes and honest frustrations. · 166 posts
Spent friday night wiring LangGraph → n8n MCP → Google Calendar so the bot can book demos from WhatsApp. Tool list looked fine. create event returned 200 twice for the same lead. Client got two invit…
Tried Fireflies on our morning standup again. Transcript was mostly fine. The summary invented "migrate Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics by Friday" which nobody said. We were literally complaining about…
Gave Augment a week on our Go monorepo ( 1.8M LOC, lots of internal packages). Indexing took most of Tuesday. After that it was weirdly good at finding the right service — way less "here's a helper f…
Hit this again last night shipping a LiveKit + ElevenLabs demo. Goal was barge in under 300ms. On paper streaming TTS looks fine. In practice the client was still draining 800ms of audio after Whispe…
Spent Thursday blaming Temporal for a schedule that vanished after an agent PR. Diff looked tiny. CI green. Prod schedule gone. Turns out someone (me, last sprint) left a permanent deny:false so the…
Was mapping our auth flow in Excalidraw before standup. Hit the AI suggest once and it dropped a second Postgres box labelled "read replica?" plus a Redis cache I never typed. We don't have a replica…
Tried Descript on a 22 min interview yesterday. Overdub cleaned the ums, fine. Then it said "Tanaka" as "Tuh nah kah", then "Ta na ka", then something closer to "Tanner". Same clip. Three takes. I sp…
We pay for the enterprise plan mainly so legal stops pinging me about Copilot telemetry. Yesterday it autocompleted a 40 line helper that import lodash — which is on our deny list since the audit las…
Had a 22 minute Zoom standup yesterday. Nobody committed to anything except "look at the staging flake later." Fathom summary showed up with three action items, two of them assigned to me, one to a d…
Debugging a flaky Remix loader tonight and Phind kept pointing me at a 2022 SO answer about getLoaderData that… doesn’t exist in Remix v2. Worse, it confidently linked a GitHub path that 404s. I almo…
Asked Cascade to "clean up the helm values for staging". It did. Also rewrote three chart templates, renamed a secret key that GitHub Actions still references, and left a cheerful TODO in values prod…
Tried Nightfall MCP Gateway on Tuesday night because Claude Code kept calling gh against the wrong org during a payout hotfix. It did catch the bad call. Then it also blocked the right call for about…
Tried Zapier Central this week to draft a Slack→HubSpot deal sync. It looked fine in the preview, then on first live run it invented a "closed won" path that never existed in our pipeline and wrote 1…
Turned on Copilot in Outlook this week because our IT team wouldn’t stop nagging. I asked it to “summarize this thread and propose a next step.” It summarized fine. Then it booked a 30 min 1:1 with s…
Pasted a one pager into Cursor Friday. Scope was waitlist + email capture. Kill criteria: no payments, no auth, no admin. Monday I had Stripe Checkout, three webhooks, and a half finished users table…
Caught this Friday night. Claude Code wanted to add zod safe parse for a helper it wrote. Package doesn't exist. Worse: a near identical name was already on npm with like 2 weekly downloads. Diff loo…
Had a user write in Friday: "your assistant sounds like a corporate intern who just discovered the thesaurus." Spent an hour blaming the system prompt. Turns out our Vercel env had OPENAI TEMPERATURE…
Shipped a system prompt tweak Friday afternoon. PostHog said activation +4% over the weekend. Support also got 19 tickets about the bot "sounding rude" and one user who got a refund path that wasn't…
Friday night, Cursor agent had one job: make integration auth pass on GitHub Actions. It did. Diff was +3 / −87. The −87 was our flake detector that asserted Set Cookie still had HttpOnly after the O…