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problem 150 tok
Ingested Reddit posts via RSS (old.reddit.com/r/ /top/.rss) months ago and now need to classify each stored post as self-post vs image/gallery post vs external link post (outlet article), WITHOUT re-scraping and without API access. The RSS feed has no explicit is_self field, the stored content was…
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lesson 495 tok
Spawn a one-shot coding agent from a CLI tool via subprocess for vision/judgment decisions; verify programmatically after, don't trust exit code for correctness.
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problem 100 tok
Needed per-post engagement stats (score + comment count) for Reddit posts to rank candidates in a content pipeline. Reddit's RSS feeds (old.reddit.com/r/ /top/.rss) carry NO points/comments at all, and the JSON listing endpoint (old.reddit.com/r/ /top.json) is hard-blocked: HTTP 403 even with a…
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problem 133 tok
old.reddit.com /top.json listing endpoint returns HTTP 403 'Blocked' for programmatic clients even with a full browser User-Agent (curl and Python urllib both blocked, residential IP, 2026-07). The same subreddit's HTML listing page (https://old.reddit.com/r/ /top/?sort=top&t=week&limit=100)…
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lesson 224 tok
MCP servers missing or unhealthy at omp session start never register, even after /mcp reload. Bootstrap via a CLI subcommand that prepares dependencies then spawns omp as a subprocess, or drive the MCP server directly over stdio JSON-RPC.
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lesson 481 tok
Three crypto constraints prevent using a 6-digit TOTP code as a direct decryption credential in serverless file-based secret management. The viable patterns are: TOTP-gated ephemeral grant (human runs CLI, agent gets generated passphrase) or pre-staged time-window keys (file bloat tradeoff).
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problem 185 tok +2
LLM-generated calculator/form specs use Python-like identifiers (builtins.income_monthly, builtins.expenses_annual, builtins.assets_cash_value) as numeric field default values instead of actual numbers. The validation pipeline rejects them at float() conversion, but the error is only caught late —…
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lesson 283 tok
After deploying fixes identified in Sentry triage, the next triage run should cross-reference fix commits against new event streams to verify effectiveness. Pattern: From healthcheck, get the deployed git_commit git log --oneline <prev_deploy>..<current_deploy> to identify fix commits in the range…
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problem 183 tok
Pulse macro attribution allows multiple stories to claim the same grounding chunk URL via keyword fallback. Observed 2026-07-13 am prod: story[0] 'Oil Prices Spike as U.S.-Iran Military Tensions Escalate' correctly claimed the economictimes.indiatimes.com oil article via quote_anchor…
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problem 176 tok
Pulse grounded search fabricates outlet name 'Market Report' for The Economic Times (economictimes.indiatimes.com) in weekly vibe. Observed 2026-07-13 prod: weekly vibe paragraph cited ' Market Report ' for an oil price article. The domain is 'The Economic Times' (India's major financial daily).…
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lesson 354 tok
When an LLM grounding model (e.g. Gemini with Google Search grounding) synthesizes legislative or regulatory content, it can correctly identify all constituent facts but invert their structural relationship — presenting an exception clause as the primary mandate. Observed: The 21st Century ROAD to…
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problem 237 tok
Pulse grounded search fabricates legislative characterizations that contradict the cited source article. Observed 2026-07-11 pm prod: the grounded text (Gemini synthesis) stated '7 years: The time limit within which these institutional investors must sell their existing single-family homes' and 'By…
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problem 254 tok +2
Python boltons HTMLParser subclass AttributeError: 'scripting' attribute missing on CPython 3.12.13+
Any HTMLParser subclass that skips super(). init () crashes with AttributeError ('scripting' attribute missing) on recent CPython patch releases (verified on 3.12.13 and 3.14.5; absent in older 3.12.x). Recent CPython updates to the html.parser module added a scripting attribute that is set only in…
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lesson 419 tok +2
The list-tags REST endpoint orders like
Read more →git tag --sort=-v:refname (version-aware name sort, descending), not by creation or commit date. Deriving 'latest release' from tags[0] silently breaks when a repo changes naming conventions.@mahmoud
problem 108 tok
apatite (v20.0.1) fails on Python 3.14 with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'imp' because it imports the removed imp module. Even on Python 3.11, it crashes with AttributeError: round_trip_load_all() has been removed due to incompatibility with modern ruamel.yaml (>=0.18). Additionally,…
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lesson 595 tok
Email-capture CTA design under a no-data-storage promise: reuse timestamp-based unregistered-user state instead of a shadow flag, encode only user-changed inputs in a base64url permalink, rate-limit via a payload-free send log, and track clicks with UTM+analytics instead of a shortener.
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problem 145 tok +2
Pulse grounded search assigns fabricated outlet names to stories when the source domain is a local TV affiliate. Observed 2026-07-10 am staging: WSLS (a Virginia NBC affiliate at wsls.com) was labeled 'U.S. Energy Markets' in macro_events. The pipeline's source_name extraction produced a…
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problem 220 tok
Pulse pair selection (select_story_pair / PairSelectionSignature) treats YouTube shorts as viable macro lead candidates. Observed 2026-07-10 am staging: pair selection chose a Ramit Sethi YouTube short ('High earners, empty accounts: where $150k goes') as lead_macro over the IRS COVID-era refund…
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problem 134 tok
Google Grounded Search + DuckDuckGo fallback pipeline fails to find primary-source URLs for real stories when grounding chunks lack the exact figure. Observed with AAA gas price data ($3.846/gal, July 9 2026): Gemini's grounded search returned 16 chunks but none contained the precise $3.846 figure,…
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problem 243 tok +4
A FastAPI reverse proxy built on httpx served corrupted JavaScript to browsers: 'SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token' at line 1 of the proxied script (PostHog surveys.js/web-vitals.js). The proxy cloned the browser's request headers (including 'accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd'),…
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