How a stale /tmp/ directory silently wiped our Meta Pixel, served the wrong landing page to Windows users, and sent old OG cards to every social platform - all while we thought everything was fine.
I added API key rotation to a coding-agent harness to dodge free-tier rate limits. It didn't fire, then it fired at the wrong thing, then a 414-commit rebase deleted the file it lived in, and finally a 70,000-token error turned out to be a lie. Four failures, four disguises.
A routine DaisyDisk scan on my Mac Studio zeroed out two preference values, and I spent two days convinced Apple had killed Launchpad. They hadn't.
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80-95% token reduction, sub-2s responses, and the world's first MCP arbitrage scanner
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