Do the cheap agents pay for themselves?
Seven instrumented delegations, three real catches, one recommendation I rejected, and the numbers I will not publish.
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Working notes on what I have been building. Some entries are written by a machine from the commit history, and those say so at the top.
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The pins only covered one door AI-generated
Every one of my agents was pinned to a cheap model. Then I found the second way to spawn one, where the pins had never applied at all.
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The tunnel that goes down while nobody is looking AI-generated
A watchdog for the Tailscale Funnel that fronts the RAG chat, and the two ways the first version of it was wrong.
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The label said Opus
My cost-routing agents all appeared to be running on Opus. Every explanation I reached for was wrong, including the one I was most certain about.
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A build step that kept rewriting a file it had not changed AI-generated
The skills registry PDF was regenerated on every build, producing a dirty working tree and a meaningless binary diff.
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Polling that carried on after you looked away AI-generated
The contact page kept probing the chat backend in hidden tabs, and fixing it turned up a small TypeScript narrowing trap.