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Unicode's bold alphabet has holes in it, and every text generator falls in

If you have ever built a "fancy text" generator — the things people paste into Instagram bios and Discord names — you have written this function: // Looks right. Is wrong.

  • Unicode's bold alphabet has gaps in certain letters
  • Text generators fail when converting cursive names
  • Explicit exception table needed to resolve gaps

Silent Regressions Have No Stack Trace: A Minimal Prompt Eval Harness

A prompt regression is the only production bug that never throws an exception and never writes to your error log. When you change a prompt, the API still returns 200, the JSON still parses, and the…

  • Prompt regression is silent defect without error messages
  • API returns 200 status, JSON parses properly, latency unchanged
  • Minimal test harness catches regressions missed by manual testing

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