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The indexer was writing 4,541 notes to C:/mnt/d while the real vault sat frozen — the old guard only checked whether the functions were still in the file, never the result on disk. Two symptoms, one cure: measure the destination.
Dogwalk's /explorar page gained coverage zones, and the first version carried the link between walker and region on a public page that needs no login. The fix wasn't hiding a field: it was deciding the zone only holds aggregates — and turning the test that required the data into one that requires its absence.
My portfolio's next feature isn't live yet: an AI-powered generator that rewrites my résumé around a job description. Before it becomes a button, the hard part was already solved — and it isn't generating text. It's keeping the AI from describing experiences that never happened.
A test was deleting RAG tables on teardown. One run, the environment variable pointing at the isolated database was ignored by the engine — and the DELETE landed on the production arachne.db, with the live server writing to it. What saved the data was an error message.
The new stage in my transcription pipeline uses Gemini TEXT over 120s windows — no audio, cheap and fast. What keeps the model from making things up isn't a polite prompt: it's a numeric ±35% character invariant per window, with retry and flag when the math doesn't close.