You sit down on Saturday with one goal. You want a tiny status reporter for later. The coding agent already has a full plan. It wants a dashboard, a worker, and Redis. You did not ask for that extra surface. You asked for a green or red result. This log shows the cut you should make. The Saturday scene The repo is a quiet side project. It holds one script and a data folder. You type a loose prompt anyway. "Make a status page I can demo." The agent treats "page" as ...