Konstantin Tikhaev

The failures that hurt are never the ones that crash. A crash gets a stack trace and a fix the same day. The expensive ones return 200, render a normal looking screen, and sit there.

My own version was on iOS. A products fetch came back empty, so the purchase button stayed greyed out. No error, no log line, nothing to alert on. The reviewer found it before I did.

So I'm curious:

What did an agent quietly break in your project?

It doesn't even have to be a big dramatic failures, more the small moments where something clicked and you went from trusting the output by default to double checking everything. For me it was watching an agent confidently rename a function across twelve files, then leave the original function untouched in a thirteenth file it apparently didn't search, with zero indication anything had been missed. It wasn't even a hard case, the file just wasn't in the directory it happened to grep first.
What was your moment? And did it actually change your workflow afterward, or did the trust creep back in after a week like it always seems to for me?

This could be related to your industry, or even a side project you're working on.

Here are my 5 (I couldn't function without them):

1. Grammarly proofreading my texts, not just posts, but also client communication

2. ChatGPT / Claude mostly brainstorming, help with copy, and summarising

3. Figma I can put the basic graphics together quickly.

4. Translator sounds incredibly old-school, but English is not my mother tongue

5. Gmail and not only for communication, but also for storing ideas and sending myself email reminders for posts