Posts about mtor
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Assume the LLM never ran
A 208 MB log, 59,356 retries, and zero LLM calls. A debugging story about what happens when the symptom lies about the cause.
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Overnight Autonomous AI Coding: What Actually Works
I left an AI coding pipeline running overnight with 21 monitoring cycles. 5 features merged, 10 specs dispatched, 3 root causes found. Here's what worked, what broke, and the quality of the output.
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The One Env Var That Cost a Day
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY vs ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN — how a single wrong environment variable made an AI coding pipeline silently fail for hours, and the debugging journey that found it.
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The architect-implementer split: why your expensive model shouldn't write code
Smart model plans, cheap model builds. The pattern everyone's converging on for AI coding agents — and the piece nobody's shipped yet.
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I made my coding agent dispatch system improve itself
mtor dispatched a coding task to improve itself — the tool that sends work to AI agents was improved by an AI agent.