Everything returned 200. Four leads still went nowhere.
Three things broke on my own projects this week and not one of them produced an error. Silent failures are the expensive kind — here is what I changed so the systems shout.
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Claude Code
A collection of 33 issues
The AI slop nobody logs: the 20-page doc that makes its problem your problem.
There's a hidden tax on teams right now: polished AI output that shifts the thinking onto whoever opens it. The real skill was never volume. It's what you cut.
My assistant created the same task three days running. The fix has a name: idempotency.
A tiny automation bug taught the same lesson payment systems learned years ago: the question isn't whether it runs, it's what happens when it runs again.
Four versions of the same email sat in my drafts. This morning, the tool just edited one.
Claude's Gmail connector now updates drafts in place instead of duplicating them. A small fix — and exactly the kind that turns AI tooling from a demo into something you trust daily.
A context window is working memory, not a hard drive. Feel that, and you manage AI differently.
The AI doesn't remember everything you've told it. It has working memory, and it's finite — here's the cheap trick I use to hear it filling up, and the fix when it does.
The real test of a system is whether the work moves when you've left the desk.
A week away, not too many meetings, and the clients' work kept moving — because the mechanical parts run on their own. On building systems that outlast your presence, and the judgement that can't be automated.
The AI said my files were empty. Every byte was still there.
My phone-side AI reported a project's notes as empty and refused to save a spreadsheet. A desktop audit found zero data loss. The failure was confidence, not storage.
Cowork reached my phone this week. I still can't tell where chat ends and Cowork begins.
Anthropic put Claude Cowork on mobile this week and OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Work days later. The Code-vs-Cowork line is clean; the Chat-vs-Cowork line still isn't. An operator's honest map of a messy, powerful moment.
For the first time ever, I closed a quarter without a missing receipt.
Months of rebuilding my accounting around Claude Code and Cowork paid off: zero missing receipts, and my accountant's new one-PDF format automated in 45 minutes. The dread is gone.
The hard part isn't Git. It's knowing which machine you're standing on.
Working with GitHub through AI assistants adds a layer nobody warns you about: three filesystems, token scopes you discover at the finish line, and the ambient-context workaround that got me through.