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Weekend Build Log: Stdout Is the Demo, Not a UI
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 ...













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