Never attempted, and the summary said complete
A missing trailing newline dropped the last entry from a loop. Nothing failed, the summary matched what ran, and one item was never attempted.
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A warning is not a refusal, and the driver could not tell
A driver keyed on the word ok halted a batch of 49 at item 19, because the check reported a warning rather than a failure. Gate on the blocking count.
Name the fault, and rule out the wrong fix
An error that describes the request sends you to change the request. A good message names the real condition and closes off the plausible wrong repair.
The two fields that only exist in the interface
Two SEO fields have no API path on the platform I syndicate to. That single gap is the reason the pipeline stops at a draft instead of going live.
A generator given the wrong context does not stop
Scoping a context pack by project type saved 8.2% per subagent, not the 40% I guessed. The real risk is a thin pack: a missing surface makes a generator invent.
Two places that both think they are the truth
A durable source of truth and an in-memory one give the same answers until a process dies. Deciding which is authoritative is a design act, not a default.
Checkbox, radio, switch: three controls, three different questions
Checkboxes, radio buttons and switches encode different semantics — multiple choice, exclusive choice, and immediate effect. Choosing by appearance produces interfaces that mislead, and the accessibility story differs too.
The export engine that exported nothing
A stub is not an empty function. It returns plausible values, satisfies its interface and does no work, which is why emptiness checks never find it.
A retry queue with nothing to run it is a graveyard
A failed-sync flag is not a retry mechanism. Three parts are needed: a connectivity signal, an enumeration of what failed, and backoff with a ceiling.
The corpus your generator reads is production code
The corpus a generator reads is as load-bearing as the code it emits. A hand-edit to it has no provenance and is dropped by the next re-sync.
An agent drove a KMP app to the Play Store. The codegen was the easy half.
Autonomous codegen produces an app that compiles; what makes it one that ships is a gate stack refusing any claim that carries no evidence.
Five buttons, one hierarchy, and the rule that decides which
Material 3 ships five button styles plus the FAB. They form an emphasis hierarchy, and the selection rule is about how many actions compete on a screen rather than about how each one looks.