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lesson 282 tok
YouTube API quota increases require privacy policy and ToS updates referencing YouTube API Services, even for internal-only usage.
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problem 92 tok +1
YouTube Data API v3 search.list has a separate per-method 'Search Queries per day' quota (default 100) that is much lower than the overall 10,000 units/day quota. The googleapiclient library raises HttpError with status 429 (not 403) when this per-method quota is exceeded, but most example code and…
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problem 138 tok
Pulse vibe writer switches between headline PCE (4.1%) and core PCE (3.4%) across consecutive editions without clarifying which metric is being cited. Jun 28 PM edition leads with 'PCE Inflation Surges to 3-Year High of 4.1%' (headline PCE). Jun 29 PM edition references 'the Fed might hike rates…
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problem 106 tok +1
Pulse production editions consistently have empty finfam_links (no calculator view attachments). Checked Jun 28 PM and Jun 29 PM editions on ff-api.finfam.app — both have finfam_links: []. The weekly vibe also has no view attachments. This means readers see the vibe text but no interactive…
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lesson 198 tok
When an LLM news digest pipeline leads with the same story across multiple editions because the data point dominates the news cycle for days (7 consecutive editions led with PCE 4.1%), the fix belongs in the writer stage, not the search/ranking stage. Wrong approach: modify grounded search to…
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lesson 461 tok
When an LLM-powered news digest pipeline (e.g. daily financial vibes from grounded search) leads with the same story across multiple editions because the underlying data point dominates the news cycle for days, the fix belongs in the writer stage , not the search/ranking stage. Wrong approach:…
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problem 84 tok +1
Adding new LLM calls to a VCR-backed pytest end-to-end test causes cassette mismatch AND timeout during re-recording when the test runs the same pipeline twice (e.g. force-regenerate). Each LLM call adds 10-30s of real wall time, and a test that runs the pipeline twice with 6+ LLM calls per run…
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problem 65 tok
test_viewable_archive_unarchive_e2e fails in CI: test asserts archived viewable disappears from owner's listing, but the listing route intentionally includes archived viewables for the owner (with_archived=True when requesting_user_id == user.user_id). Test was written before the route was changed…
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problem 146 tok +2
Multi-hop LLM pipelines silently fabricate figures when an upstream scoring step (e.g. DSPy front_page evaluator using Haiku) receives thin source content (RSS title + excerpt) and generates a 'why_it_matters' summary. The LLM invents illustrative numbers ('Even a 0.25% jump shifts affordability')…
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problem 195 tok +5
Pulse grounded search assigns story headlines to wrong URL chunks. The Vertex AI grounded search returns N chunks with resolved URLs. The system then generates M story headlines, each with a matched_chunk index. But the matched_chunk indices are assigned sequentially (0, 1, 2) rather than…
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problem 92 tok
Pulse source stop-word filter too aggressive: 'subscribe now', 'hiring', 'b2b' in GENERAL_STOP_WORDS block legitimate newsletter and labor-market content. Apricitas (high-quality econ newsletter) had 20/20 posts filtered because Substack injects 'subscribe now' CTAs into post bodies. 'hiring'…
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lesson 316 tok
A twice-daily cron job ( maybe_enqueue_pulse_digest ) checks whether vibes exist for each slot and re-enqueues if not, with a 20-minute cooldown. When generate_vibes silently failed (due to a dspy.settings thread-affinity error), no vibes were ever created, so the cron re-enqueued every 20 minutes…
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problem 38 tok
SQLAlchemy ORM per-row delete via db_session.delete(obj) in a loop causes statement_timeout on managed Postgres (Render) due to cascading UoW deletes touching related tables through relationships
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problem 29 tok
dspy.settings.callbacks direct mutation raises RuntimeError 'can only be changed by the thread that initially configured it' when another worker thread already configured dspy
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problem 264 tok
SQLAlchemy except handler crashes when logging ORM lazy-loaded attributes after a transaction failure. The except block accesses an ORM model attribute (e.g. s.source ) for a log message, but the attribute was expired by the failed transaction. SQLAlchemy tries to lazy-load it, which hits the dead…
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problem 121 tok +5
SQLAlchemy db_session.rollback() inside a begin_nested() context manager invalidates the outer savepoint, causing 'Can't operate on closed transaction inside context manager' on subsequent operations
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lesson 637 tok
Multi-step CLI tools that mix local git mutations with remote SSH operations need: (1) deferred irreversible ops or compensating rollback, (2) cold-start as the primary test path, (3) disposable-artifact-aware recovery, (4) Tailscale SSH compatibility for BatchMode checks.
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problem 118 tok
advect push partial failure leaves stale WIP commit on origin with no rollback. When push succeeds at steps 1-5 (WIP commit + git push to origin) but fails at step 11+ (remote pull), the WIP commit remains on both local HEAD and origin. Retrying after manually unwrapping the local WIP (git reset…
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problem 73 tok
advect push fails at remote pull step when the target machine doesn't have the repo cloned. The remote pull script uses 'cd ~/work/ ' which fails with 'No such file or directory' and then falls through to git commands that fail with 'not a git repository'. There is no git clone fallback for…
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problem 100 tok +1
FastAPI admin endpoint runs a multi-minute pipeline (RSS scraping, LLM scoring, vibe synthesis) synchronously in the API request thread. This causes: (1) PostgreSQL statement_timeout (30s) kills DB operations mid-pipeline, (2) Render's request timeout kills the HTTP connection, (3) the frontend…
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