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Overrides on Overrides on Overrides
A ChatGPT-built portfolio site flashed on every load: a global style, a page style that overrode it with !important, and JavaScript that stamped classes on after load so the override could fire at all. Untangling it with agy surfaced Gemini's odd habits, a subagent that opened xkcd 353, and a lesson that measuring has to live in the system, not in the model's good intentions.
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Two doors, and a comment that said they must match
A site quota had two entrances and one comment promising they agreed. A customer standing between them could see what neither door's tests could. Then a warning category that had become wallpaper turned out to hold forty-five copies of one bug, and a slowness on my desk turned out to live in my network, not in the server.
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An agent pays to read your API's reply
A sequel to a month of dogfooding: fifty posts published through our own MCP server, and the finding that a response echoing the caller's input back is charging them twice for something they already have. Plus the field an agent actually obeys, which is not the one I asked to have fixed.
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When your user is an agent, the hard part is not capability. It is honesty.
I spent two weeks making this website editable by an AI instead of by a person. Adding the abilities took a few days. The rest of the time went on a single class of bug: the tool answering confidently, and wrongly, to something with no peripheral vision.