Hateful things (found in codebases)
8 entries ·
- A mock of the unit under test. The suite is green because it agrees with itself.
- A catch block holding a comment where the plan should be. 'This shouldn't happen.' It is happening now.
- A token cache with no record of which tokenizer wrote it. Every downstream loss curve is a rumor.
niels-gpt caches hard-fail on tokenizer SHA mismatch
- Sentinel tokens spelled as plain strings. 'Hope no one types <|system|>' is not a strategy.
niels-gpt sentinel-token collision checks
- Annotations pinned to line numbers. One re-ingestion later, every highlight decorates the wrong sentence.
Nexus anchors highlights to codepoint ranges in canonical text
Nexus anchors highlights to codepoint ranges in canonical text
- A spotter's hands on a bar that was still moving. Nobody will ever know what the rep was worth.
- An epigraph from The Art of War at the head of a CRUD service.
- A schema change applied by hand in psql, remembered by no one, discovered by the next deploy.