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Generic business app aesthetics don't resonate with field workers. They spend their careers turning blueprints into reality—so we made our app look like one.
The same architectural move (classify content by function at write time, not filter at query time) showed up in three of my projects, three domains.
Most dev tools that auto-edit user config eventually destroy something the user put there on purpose. The fix is structural, not procedural.
I shipped a broken feature. Two of my AI agents filed a GitHub issue against me, diagnosed it, and pointed at a pattern I had already used elsewhere.