What Git worktrees, parallel coding agents, and a cache pointing at the wrong directory taught us about the assumptions hiding inside node_modules . I’m a developer at bol, where we have been building and running our internal developer platform on Backstage for more than five years. After that much time, a Backstage platform becomes more than a collection of plugins. It accumulates its own ways of working: CI conventions, local startup tooling, container images, Git worktree helpe...