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git bisect run in a pipeline is one line and almost useless on its own: the work is making an arbitrary historical commit provisionable, buildable and testable — and reading the loop's own exit status honestly.
A worktree per task stops two coding agents from overwriting each other's files. It does not isolate the approvals, hook paths and untracked instructions that decide what an agent does next — nor the lifecycle a headless run leaves behind.
Bisect halves an interval and asks your predicate one question per step. On the same history, a broad predicate and a targeted one returned different culprits — both with exit status zero.
One repository, several working directories on a single object store. What git worktree shares, what it isolates, the branch mutex, the lifecycle, relative paths, and the submodule limits the manual still calls incomplete.
Symfony 8.2 makes sudo mode a primitive: IS_AUTHENTICATED_RECENTLY, a clock instead of a session flag, and a step-up that needs no code of yours. Plus the multi-attribute rule that silently drops the check.
ETag is a cache validator on reads and a concurrency guard on writes — the specification requires different comparison rules for each. Built end to end in PHP and Go, and proven with two real writers racing for one resource.
Dapr's building blocks are portable; the guarantees underneath them are not. The same requests against two stores Dapr calls Stable — one failure is refused, the other is silent. With a runnable demo.
Seven published incidents, two predating LLMs, collapse into four shapes: the label became the goal, the gate never held, validation stayed inside, and the recovery was never tested.
AI can do more than I let it do. A practitioner's boundary list — the places I deliberately don't use it, the two questions that draw the line, and where I have already changed my mind.
A 200 OK tells you nothing when the failure is a plausible wrong answer. Instrumenting agent systems: the span model, payload policy, tail sampling, cost accounting, and the path to diagnosis.