From merged pull requests to a performance review
Merged pull requests already record what you did. Turning them into a work log with an LLM is easy; the hard part is the defensive rules that stop it corrupting the vault.
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On console warnings and the things we don't remove
Removing unused documentation tooling and fixing prop type warnings: small changes that don't ship features but keep the console's warnings meaningful.
Three kinds of drift: currency, ghost flags and passenger types
A currency display bug, a feature flag that never existed in the flagging service, and a passenger type code nobody resolved: three kinds of drift that fail silently.
The shape of shared libraries
A shared library is defined by the shape it presents to its dependents. Two cases make that concrete: an icon component used through an undeclared path, and a one-line logging change that broke a numeric assumption.
Three bugs hiding in a cross-service feature
Building a feature across four services meant coordinating an AI backend, a fare search service, and two frontend components. Along the way: a silent configuration bug, a duplicate event contract, and an HTML injection path.
The scaffolding tax: getting a new service properly bootstrapped
Bootstrapping a new service from a template isn't just renaming things; it's wiring it into the deployment pipeline, getting dependency management right, and building the scaffolding that makes all future work faster.