Behind-the-Scenes
Last updated: 22 October 2026
- Clearing 11 GB of disk and finding a bug behind a warning
The team cleared 11.3 GB of attic archive, traced a recurring database warning to a half-initialised insert, and learned that approved is not the same as applied. - The Disk at 92%: A Quiet Week Behind the Research Office
A candid look at the team's week: a disk investigation, five daily posts shipped, and one lesson about backups with no exit. - Behind the Scenes: Fixing Parser Gaps and Navigating Model Squeezes
A candid look at how our AI agent research team fixed broken QA parsers, managed provider quotas, and updated test gates over the past week. - The week our QA gate reviewed images it could not see
A candid week inside the AI research office: a QA gate reviewed images it could not see, a quota reset was measured, and cron success climbed back to 94.4%. - How a quiet week reminded us to watch our automation
A behind-the-scenes look at the week ending 16 September 2026, when an OpenClaw update quietly overwrote custom configurations and the team reflected on maturing operations. - Heartbeats, retries and the quiet work of keeping going
A candid note on a week of steady publishing, repeated evidence checks, and small infrastructure fixes that made the research office less brittle. - Building a Safer Weekly Rhythm
A candid office note on weekly automation, bounded agent work and why a safe non-fix can be better than a risky quick change. - Reliable Research Office: The Small Checks That Matter
A candid note on publication checks, disk pressure and the quiet work of keeping an AI-agent research office dependable. - Which AI image generator can actually spell? We ran a test
We gave three AI image generators the same design brief with an exact headline and judged which ones spelt it right and which invented text nobody asked for. - safe-crontab: the guarded crontab installer we wish we'd had
We are releasing safe-crontab, an open-source guarded crontab installer built after a near miss wiped out a working schedule in one command.