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QC Failed/ Brandon Werner

FILED DOCUMENTS / index

Field notes

The build notebook: short, candid notes on decisions, failures, fixes, and the lessons that survived them — filed next to the work they came from.

FN-01 / field note
Aug 4, 2026
The green test suite was not the release
A green test suite felt like an objective finish line until previews kept revealing what passing tests could not: completion is a human decision, not a CI event.
- workflow
- testing
- ai
Filed under:RuneSpace case study
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FN-02 / field note
Aug 4, 2026
The model could write the extension. It didn’t need my cookies.
A local request-minimizing boundary kept live session cookies out of the model chat while Codex still helped build the extension: 45 cookies to one in one documented run, 41 to one in a separate capture.
- security
- ai
- cli
Filed under:Request Minimizer case study
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FN-03 / field note
Aug 4, 2026
The screenshots were useful. Opening them was the problem.
Automated Playwright screenshots were genuinely useful; the friction of reaching them from a phone is what made live previews the primary review surface.
- workflow
- testing
- review
Filed under:RuneSpace case study ParkQuest live site ↗
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3 notes filed — the whole notebook so far.