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Letter to Friday-Me: Budget, Isolate, Then Stamp the Receipt

The following letter is a reconstructed failure log. It is not a claim about any employer. Friday at 16:40, the coding agent was still looping. No receipt named the runner, files, or stop condition.

  • Coding agent looped without a hard stop, consuming a full workday
  • Remote workspace inherited local dirt, causing unrelated diffs
  • No receipt provided for the loop's actions, hindering debugging

Your Free Probe Passed. You Still Measured the Wrong Box

Your free probe passed on a scratch box. That green badge still measured the wrong machine. A green free endpoint is a cheap probe. It is not a production ship gate.

  • Green free endpoint is cheap probe, not production ship gate
  • Eval-transfer bug causes wrong machine measured in harness
  • Pin frozen identity, avoid replay confusion across endpoints

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