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Your cleanup handler did not run, and you will never be told
An EXIT trap restored something important. Closing the terminal window sent SIGHUP, which terminates without running EXIT traps, and the important thing stayed lost. The fix was not a bigger trap — it was to stop treating cleanup as the place correctness lives.
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The day my own cleanup tool deleted 612 MB of live work
A cleanup feature ate a session that was still open, on my own machine, the day it shipped. Three independent guards had to fail for that to happen — and the deepest one was that the tool was showing a machine's guess instead of the name I had typed myself.
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Your best reviewer is the one who has never heard your reasoning
A bug survived five releases because everyone who read that line already knew what it was supposed to do. The fix was not reading harder — it was pointing a reader with no memory at the diff, and paying the tax that comes with one.
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The half they rent you, and the half that is yours
The model is rented and the vendors are at war over it, which is good news. The other half — who you are, what you know, where you left off — is yours, and it only stays yours if it can leave.
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I spent nine months calling it a fuel tank
The container was named after the most visible thing inside it. It was actually holding long-term memory, session history, and a record of who I had been while using it — and once you notice that, the whole tool has to change shape.
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They asked me to separate their accounts, not their tools
Isolating an account meant pointing one environment variable at a private directory. It worked. It also silently took away every custom command the user had written, because the vendor kept those in the same place.
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Never judge a headless AI run by its exit code
An agent that hit its usage limit and wrote nothing still exits 0. So you check the file instead — and then a stale file, and an empty file, both lie to you too. Three versions of the same bug, and the rule that finally held.