Split JSX transpiler into libyggdrasil + thin CLI with C API for embedding
Takeaway: Next time I'd flag up front that any CLI flags removed during a refactor need a compatibility shim, since removing --recover silently broke one test fixture.
Stack · 12 sessions
Bash sessions with coding agents
12 sessions on Bash with a coding agent: the agent failed at least once in 9, and 3 finished without a human stepping in.
Fixed 12 bokeh clips and extended breathing room in wedding edit to 9:41
Takeaway: Next time I'd put the full bokeh-fix-plus-breathing-room task in one prompt from the start instead of splitting it into scout/backup/implement stages — the orchestrator ended up doing that anyway.
Diagnosed and fixed a Pi agent config with silently overriding web-search provider
Takeaway: Next time I'd start by dumping the raw config files myself instead of pasting agent transcripts and letting Claude re-diagnose from scratch — it wasted a lot of turns re-reading settings.json across live and repo copies.
Fixed OnePlus 12 keyboard diacritics by patching popup_keys_order in backup and restoring
Takeaway: Next time I'd tell it upfront to just use agy for background workers since pi -p silently hangs without doing real work — that cost a good chunk of the session polling dead processes.
Verified Headroom proxy setup was already optimal, documented every tuning knob
Takeaway: I'd start by asking it to grep the installed package for HEADROOM_ env vars directly instead of trusting the hosted docs, since those turned out to be too vague to use.
Split JSX transpiler into C library + CLI with embeddable C API, 48/48 tests passing
Takeaway: Next time I'd specify upfront which CLI flags must stay wired through even if the C API doesn't support them yet, since dropping --recover during the refactor silently broke a fixture test and cost a round of debugging.
Fixed 12 flagged bokeh clips and extended breathing room in wedding v2 edit
Takeaway: I'd start the next session by pointing straight at the handoff file and the specific list of flagged clips instead of re-deriving triage state from scratch — that reconstruction step ate a lot of time.
Fixed Pi agent's silent web-search failures and mapped 5 subscriptions into it
Takeaway: Next time I'd start with 'trace the actual config precedence and provider fallback logic, don't just read the top-level JSON' — that's what caught the real bug (searchProvider silently overriding provider).
Unified matte-black design tokens across waybar, walker, mako, hyprland and documented it
Takeaway: Next time I'd start the audit prompt with 'compare live config to the dotfiles repo and flag drift' up front, since half the useful findings came from that diff rather than the visual review.
Fixed missing Romanian diacritics on OnePlus 12 HeliBoard via patched backup
Takeaway: Next time I'd tell it upfront to sanity-check that pi workers are actually producing output within a minute or two, since three of them silently hung for over five minutes doing nothing while I waited.
Wedding edit v2 polished to v3 (10:53) with iPhone clips, 3-act music, speech fixes
Takeaway: Next time I'd put the cover-photo disposition check and the taste-notes review earlier in the same prompt, since the disposition bug (attached_pic=0) only got caught because I forced an ffprobe verification step right after muxing — that's the correction that actually mattered here.
Delivered v5 wedding cut with 3 taste fixes in 11:23 runtime
Takeaway: I'd put the exact three taste notes and the agy chunking method in the first prompt so the orchestrator doesn't have to rediscover conventions from the handoff doc every round.