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Field guide · 133

The agent said
it was done

133 traps actually stepped on while building with AI coding agents. More than half never throw. They report success, and nothing happened.

200 SUCCESS
six weeks, nothing changed
exit code 0
the cron never ran once
47 registered
all with zero images
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When you are standing on the mine, the symptom is all you can see.

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Windows and PowerShell

Where the shell quietly changes your values

0240
Python and databases

When the data is right but the result isn't

0314
Git and automation

How unattended things stop without telling you

0415
Claude Code and agents

What actually happened when it said done

0530
Deploy and infrastructure

Invisible walls in crons and external services

0626
Write APIs

The ways a success response lies