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All entries — David Kariuki

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381 entries

  1. [debug]Demanded a full memory retrieval trace after a wrong Project Bingo result25 MAY 2026
  2. [decision]Bypassed the broken Granular hook to write nine days of entries straight to the database25 MAY 2026
  3. [approach]Insisted the coach's onboarding be in-context LLM not hardcoded scripts25 MAY 2026
  4. [decision]iMessage handoff as the consumer signup path, with the agent typing naturally25 MAY 2026
  5. [decision]Set the GitHub Actions billing block as the gating action on Kerra deploys25 MAY 2026
  6. [debug]Traced David's own missing Kerra workspaces back into production25 MAY 2026
  7. [problem]Caught the Kerra workspace agent lying instead of searching the user's LMS files25 MAY 2026
  8. [approach]Specified the Kerra groupchat-to-workspace bridge semantics for canvas users25 MAY 2026
  9. [decision]Dispatched four parallel agents for the Kerra course-rename bug25 MAY 2026
  10. [debug]Rejected Twilio Puerto Rico geofence as the OTP bug without proof25 MAY 2026
  11. [decision]Refused dramatising the Kocatepe dossier despite finding financial distress25 MAY 2026
  12. [approach]Used multi-hour deep OSINT as the input layer for each partner granular profile25 MAY 2026
  13. [decision]Rewrote partner card copy to refuse intimacy register25 MAY 2026
  14. [decision]Capped each partner gift profile at two pages for a single double-sided print25 MAY 2026
  15. [approach]Set the open-questions section as the directional payload of a partner's granular gift25 MAY 2026
  16. [debug]Tracked the macOS 'Application cannot be opened' failure to a missing embedded.provisionprofile25 MAY 2026
  17. [problem]Pushed back on the Granular Connect hook firing on every Stop instead of once per session25 MAY 2026
  18. [decision]Collapsed the /home dashboard into the user's public profile rather than maintaining two surfaces25 MAY 2026
  19. [debug]Forced the '22,908 messages' hero and 'tools last 26 weeks' band on his profile to agree25 MAY 2026
  20. [decision]Routed existing subscribers through Stripe's portal update flow to prevent duplicate Pro/Max subscriptions25 MAY 2026
  21. [milestone]Switched Granular's production Stripe wiring to a new live account with Pro $20 and Max $49 prices25 MAY 2026
  22. [decision]Gated the profile chat behind sign-up and capped daily AI queries per plan25 MAY 2026
  23. [milestone]Shipped Granular Connect 0.5.2 for Windows after fixing the WSL setup gap25 MAY 2026
  24. [debug]Investigated why Granular Connect was installed on Windows but registered no hooks inside WSL25 MAY 2026
  25. [milestone]Prepared a live ESP32 telemetry dashboard demo in 30 minutes after the integration with Nyakallo's STM32 failed25 MAY 2026
  26. [insight]Caught his report draft using draft-language like 'integration correction' in a final submission25 MAY 2026
  27. [approach]Fanned out six high-reasoning subagents to audit the telemetry report against the rubric and example reports25 MAY 2026
  28. [decision]Rejected the first telemetry report draft for overfitting to prior submissions and demanded a rebuild to A+ standard25 MAY 2026
  29. [debug]Diagnosed the STM32-to-ESP32 link failure as a pin/contact problem and texted his teammate the hypothesis25 MAY 2026
  30. [approach]Treated the AI as a lab partner and report co-author, asking to be babied through circuit work25 MAY 2026
  31. [decision]Refused to ship an STM32-coupled telemetry build that needed soldering, switched to an ESP32 bridge instead25 MAY 2026
  32. [decision]Hard-delete test users from Granular and Clerk so they can re-sign-up cleanly25 MAY 2026
  33. [decision]Default to frontier, never fall back to shitty alternatives25 MAY 2026
  34. [decision]Suspected model-routing degradation, with a PE pitch on Monday at stake25 MAY 2026
  35. [problem]Granular Connect hooks must self-install, not require Claude Code /hooks review25 MAY 2026
  36. [decision]Scheduling agents must be conversational, not a discrete settings UI25 MAY 2026
  37. [decision]Granular desktop opens to a proactive 24-hour overview, not an empty chat25 MAY 2026
  38. [decision]Remote 24/7 agents must run in the cloud with Slack, AgentMail, and full Claude-Code parity25 MAY 2026
  39. [question]Does Granular need Graphiti to become a true knowledge graph, not just vector search?25 MAY 2026
  40. [decision]Turbopuffer plus a real knowledge graph, not string matching, is the recall layer25 MAY 2026
  41. [insight]File-by-file copying does not scale; remote ingestion is the real architecture25 MAY 2026
  42. [decision]Mirror Dropbox read-only into Granular-owned storage for an always-fresh copy25 MAY 2026
  43. [decision]Goose chosen as the white-label runtime for the Granular desktop app25 MAY 2026
  44. [decision]Granular Brain is a company-wide brain, not a Dropbox-specific feature25 MAY 2026
  45. [insight]PE firms' real pain is unstructured, scattered data, not missing chat UI25 MAY 2026
  46. [decision]Granular's PE desktop must be religious-art quality, not an MVP25 MAY 2026
  47. [decision]David asked for a 21-day manual backfill of Granular entries after Connect broke25 MAY 2026
  48. [decision]David paused launching agents on Granular Firms to think with web Claude first25 MAY 2026
  49. [debug]David forced root-cause investigation of the May 8 Granular Connect macOS outage25 MAY 2026
  50. [insight]David reframed the Today page as a narrated daily briefing25 MAY 2026
  51. [decision]David rebuilt the Granular desktop chat surface around sessions and agent work25 MAY 2026
  52. [decision]David scoped a partnership deck for Stitch rather than another pitch25 MAY 2026
  53. [insight]David rejected performative-pithy prose in the deck25 MAY 2026
  54. [decision]David rewrote the Granular pitch deck thesis around agent-orchestration as labour25 MAY 2026
  55. [decision]David commissioned the bullet-proof execution plan via an 8-agent team25 MAY 2026
  56. [question]David interrogated the binary-modification spoof scenario25 MAY 2026
  57. [decision]David approved publishing the Profile Integrity Constitution25 MAY 2026
  58. [insight]David flagged the model-output-signing gap as the last unfixable layer25 MAY 2026
  59. [decision]David refused to skip the Linux TPM path25 MAY 2026
  60. [problem]David framed the local-first spoofing problem25 MAY 2026
  61. [decision]David made local-first non-negotiable for Granular25 MAY 2026
  62. [decision]Banned poetic short-sentence prose from the firms deck25 MAY 2026
  63. [approach]Redirected /firms to advertise CLI/API database access25 MAY 2026
  64. [decision]Repositioned the resume certificate as a private logged-in-only surface25 MAY 2026
  65. [debug]Refused likely-cause speculation on Hugo's silent coach reply25 MAY 2026
  66. [decision]Demanded a real static snapshot of the example profile, not an edge-cached fetch25 MAY 2026
  67. [decision]Separated public granular profile from the paid verified credentials page25 MAY 2026
  68. [approach]Specified profile-views and PDF-open as psychological upgrade levers25 MAY 2026
  69. [decision]Killed 'Featured verified profiles similar to David' as LinkedIn-skip copy25 MAY 2026
  70. [approach]Specified daily coach tips as feedback-not-questions grounded in the user's own profile25 MAY 2026
  71. [decision]Reframed Pro/Max pricing around 'your profile advertises someone else'25 MAY 2026
  72. [decision]Shipped the Windows Connect app without Azure identity validation25 MAY 2026
  73. [decision]Killed the custom-connector explainer in favour of a deep link to the OpenAI store25 MAY 2026
  74. [decision]Ordered a 10-agent investigation into Windows/Mac Connect parity25 MAY 2026
  75. [problem]Mobile signup blew up with too-many-redirects on Safari25 MAY 2026
  76. [problem]The user should never have to think about what an 'entry' is25 MAY 2026
  77. [decision]Delegation rule: cross heaven and earth before asking the user to do anything25 MAY 2026
  78. [debug]Cross-environment message count: 16.1B tokens, not 1.4B25 MAY 2026
  79. [insight]MCP calls don't count toward a user's Claude Code or Codex usage25 MAY 2026
  80. [approach]Granular Coach personality spec: a 20-something close friend, not a brand voice25 MAY 2026
  81. [decision]Proof-page metrics cannot be invented; every score needs a real computation25 MAY 2026
  82. [approach]Proof page should feel like a Treasury or JPM document, not a startup landing25 MAY 2026
  83. [decision]Phone-first sign-in must exist before iMessage handoff ships25 MAY 2026
  84. [decision]Framed Granular's paid plans as removing ads from your profile, not as a feature list16 MAY 2026
  85. [decision]kerra university home is the core surface14 MAY 2026
  86. [decision]Switched Kerra model defaults: gemini-2.5-flash as default, monitor moved to gemini-flash-lite14 MAY 2026
  87. [debug]Investigated calendar event duplication on completion toggle13 MAY 2026
  88. [debug]Extension detection taking 30 seconds on signup completion12 MAY 2026
  89. [problem]Kerra was sending blank morning/evening SMS messages to users12 MAY 2026
  90. [artifact]Commissioned gift notification email redesigned from scratch for Kiss Me with Compute11 MAY 2026
  91. [debug]Fixed Codex WSL update loop that persisted on every launch11 MAY 2026
  92. [decision]Separated assignment planner from lecture notes pipeline with a feature flag10 MAY 2026
  93. [decision]Commissioned personalised outreach emails based on inferred course schedules09 MAY 2026
  94. [problem]Activity heatmap was oriented with future on the right, past on left09 MAY 2026
  95. [decision]Hid granular's search feature from production so it's invisible even to engineers in DevTools08 MAY 2026
  96. [decision]Rejected agent prompt injection into lecture notes to handle document failures08 MAY 2026
  97. [artifact]the snitch voice rules07 MAY 2026
  98. [debug]Found dual concurrent agent runs corrupting the same workspace document06 MAY 2026
  99. [problem]PPTX is first-class course material06 MAY 2026
  100. [decision]Gated 'agents with own computer' workspace model to pro plan only05 MAY 2026
  101. [decision]Launched Create New Lecture modal replacing the Start Kerra button05 MAY 2026
  102. [debug]Investigated new Notre Dame signup with empty home page despite successful calendar runs04 MAY 2026
  103. [problem]Profile showing mock data instead of real computed analytics03 MAY 2026
  104. [insight]writing in lowercase isnt a bit03 MAY 2026
  105. [problem]Calendar agents failing silently for multiple new signups02 MAY 2026
  106. [debug]Investigated why tool usage analytics showed mock data instead of real counts02 MAY 2026
  107. [debug]Investigated activity grid position conflict across two visual panels01 MAY 2026
  108. [debug]Pushed back on 'AI model laziness' as root cause for lecture notes failures30 APR 2026
  109. [decision]user clicks must remain the generation path30 APR 2026
  110. [decision]Decided to ingest 6 months of transcripts with 8 partitioned agents29 APR 2026
  111. [question]How do we measure retention signal cleanly when users span the cohort boundary?28 APR 2026
  112. [debug]Investigated why a lecture workspace showed premature semi-complete tabs28 APR 2026
  113. [debug]OTP rate-limit firing after just two requests on signup27 APR 2026
  114. [decision]Commissioned growth referral system with 51 state-scoped ambassador links27 APR 2026
  115. [insight]copy should not sound AI-like26 APR 2026
  116. [problem]dont deploy snitch through kerra25 APR 2026
  117. [debug]Lecture notes generated from Google Slides links with no actual slide content25 APR 2026
  118. [problem]privacy and copyright anxiety are onboarding blockers24 APR 2026
  119. [decision]Decided Snitch beta subscription language should replace 'join the beta' CTA24 APR 2026
  120. [question]Cost-benefit of sending Canvas DMs through users' extensions23 APR 2026
  121. [debug]Investigated canvas file metadata sync gap causing unlinked lecture source files22 APR 2026
  122. [decision]Directed end-to-end build of Snitch MCP connector for Claude in a single day22 APR 2026
  123. [approach]read the plan file, then audit reality21 APR 2026
  124. [decision]Hid Therapa button from Kerra university app header21 APR 2026
  125. [milestone]Added search box to granular homepage for profile discovery20 APR 2026
  126. [decision]Decided kissmewithcompute should let users pay others in compute credits19 APR 2026
  127. [debug]Post-signup onboarding failure on production19 APR 2026
  128. [debug]OpenAI API usage spiking to $300 in a single day on Granular18 APR 2026
  129. [problem]Workspace AI chat has jarring shell command flash and broken scroll18 APR 2026
  130. [decision]Designed granular installer agents as four parallel specialists for different platforms17 APR 2026
  131. [debug]Lecture workspace documents opened as empty during live generation16 APR 2026
  132. [decision]canvas groupchat fanout rules16 APR 2026
  133. [question]Challenged whether tool and thread belong in the public kind taxonomy15 APR 2026
  134. [question]what does it feel like for information to feel seen15 APR 2026
  135. [debug]Investigated why Lesedi's prefetch showed permanently failed after clicking candidate14 APR 2026
  136. [decision]Commissioned security and data-architecture audit of Kerra before sharing with users13 APR 2026
  137. [decision]Disabled auto-prewarming of lecture notes workspaces13 APR 2026
  138. [problem]Kerra workspace hanging with empty response after apparently successful greeting12 APR 2026
  139. [debug]root cause, not plausible story11 APR 2026
  140. [debug]Investigated kerra.work domain going down mid-lecture generation11 APR 2026
  141. [debug]Investigated phone OTP rate-limiting during new user signup on Kerra10 APR 2026
  142. [debug]Investigated class group chat missing from university app header10 APR 2026
  143. [decision]Granular early-access flow should match Kerra firms application09 APR 2026
  144. [decision]Rejected phased rollout wording in the Canvas file metadata heal plan08 APR 2026
  145. [debug]Investigated Giancarlo Allio's stuck OTP 900-second timeout on Kerra signup08 APR 2026
  146. [decision]Removed Telegram banner and signup step from Kerra07 APR 2026
  147. [problem]agent runtime must be taught its tools07 APR 2026
  148. [debug]background compute must be accountable06 APR 2026
  149. [debug]Caught demo profile photo rendering poorly at unzoomed scale05 APR 2026
  150. [debug]Lecture notes prefetch state contradiction on failed run05 APR 2026
  151. [milestone]Shipped mobile signup handoff — send link to laptop feature04 APR 2026
  152. [decision]Audited granular MCP connector end-to-end with 8 agents04 APR 2026
  153. [debug]Caught prefetch_state='failed' masking a successful prefetch on Canvas candidates03 APR 2026
  154. [debug]Monitor TLR model switch to Gemini 2.5 Flash — semaphore investigation02 APR 2026
  155. [decision]Per-document podcast via direct TTS, not the full podcast pipeline02 APR 2026
  156. [milestone]Hard-deleted Caden's account from production DB and Clerk01 APR 2026
  157. [decision]Specified data privacy screen copy for Kerra onboarding — no jargon01 APR 2026
  158. [debug]PPTX files silently bypassed page selection, exposing a missing conversion step31 MAR 2026
  159. [insight]Phased rollout is the wrong default for a startup product30 MAR 2026
  160. [decision]Kill assignment planner agents with a simple feature flag30 MAR 2026
  161. [problem]canvas external sources need first-class modeling29 MAR 2026
  162. [decision]Chose threads over projects as the profile grouping metaphor28 MAR 2026
  163. [decision]Chose 'Top firms find top candidates on granular' over the incumbent hero line28 MAR 2026
  164. [decision]kerra pays for archimedes27 MAR 2026
  165. [decision]Rejected shared upload modal, commissioned bespoke design from scratch27 MAR 2026
  166. [problem]rotary pendulum, run it end to end26 MAR 2026
  167. [question]Asked whether Claude code subsidization changes the Kerra compute cost model25 MAR 2026
  168. [debug]Extension reconnect popup firing despite extension being connected25 MAR 2026
  169. [insight]active usage must mean meaningful work24 MAR 2026
  170. [insight]visible_at is a product timestamp, not a database timestamp24 MAR 2026
  171. [milestone]Shipped MCP security patches: OAuth consent flow, token exposure, scope enforcement23 MAR 2026
  172. [decision]Disable assignment planner to stop unwanted background AI runs22 MAR 2026
  173. [problem]each entry needs first-principles context22 MAR 2026
  174. [decision]claude code and codex are interchangeable seats21 MAR 2026
  175. [approach]relevant course files must be read completely21 MAR 2026
  176. [insight]every project is the same bet wearing costumes20 MAR 2026
  177. [problem]Kerra sending users a 'kinra' rebranded email on signup19 MAR 2026
  178. [debug]draft_post returned 200 but no card19 MAR 2026
  179. [debug]Caught canvas prefetch_state contradiction: failed field vs succeeded metrics18 MAR 2026
  180. [approach]Iterative multi-agent plan review before execution18 MAR 2026
  181. [insight]Module planner candidate names should reflect content, not just file paths17 MAR 2026
  182. [question]Questioned whether Canvas dual-endpoint sync creates duplicates16 MAR 2026
  183. [question]Are artifact and tool valid entry kinds on a public profile?16 MAR 2026
  184. [decision]Workspace model default changed to Gemini Flash, agents mode gated to Pro15 MAR 2026
  185. [insight]Profile must read as a serious work record, not a casual publication14 MAR 2026
  186. [problem]Activity grid rendered with future months on right, making recent activity invisible14 MAR 2026
  187. [debug]Courses modal flickering on university app home13 MAR 2026
  188. [problem]Kerra signup produced no lecture notes candidates for new Notre Dame user13 MAR 2026
  189. [milestone]Deployed granular MCP security patches across four exploitable bugs in the draft→publish path12 MAR 2026
  190. [problem]UI state must tell the truth11 MAR 2026
  191. [decision]Build user-upload modal for missing external lecture sources11 MAR 2026
  192. [decision]fail open, then reconcile10 MAR 2026
  193. [decision]granular is not a blog10 MAR 2026
  194. [decision]MCP first, claude before chatgpt09 MAR 2026
  195. [decision]Deleted all UCT user data and David's own account from production08 MAR 2026
  196. [debug]kissmewithcompute.com receiving Kerra deploys after DNS/GitHub Actions misconfiguration08 MAR 2026
  197. [decision]Rejected phased rollout wording in fix plan, demanding full immediate execution07 MAR 2026
  198. [approach]dont make code changes yet can mean go deeper07 MAR 2026
  199. [decision]Banned kind-label symbols, kept their colors for text labels06 MAR 2026
  200. [decision]Built kissmewithcompute launch video in Remotion with kinetic transitions05 MAR 2026
  201. [debug]Concurrent lecture notes agents writing to the same document simultaneously05 MAR 2026
  202. [decision]Upload modal design: no acknowledgement checkbox, no raw URLs04 MAR 2026
  203. [decision]Added Research Mode toggle to Kerra workspace, switching model to GPT-5.404 MAR 2026
  204. [decision]Proposed referral pledge screen for signup to replace Genius Preview animation03 MAR 2026
  205. [question]Asked whether granular should render artifacts inline, not as downloads02 MAR 2026
  206. [debug]Investigated why Keno's signup produced no calendar events despite available announcements02 MAR 2026
  207. [debug]Caught prefetch_state='failed' contradicting prefetch_metrics showing 6/6 success01 MAR 2026
  208. [decision]prompt changes must hit prod, seed, and fallback01 MAR 2026
  209. [decision]Replace em dashes across all Granular pages with contextual rewording28 FEB 2026
  210. [problem]Notre Dame signup had zero calendar agents and no lecture candidates27 FEB 2026
  211. [debug]Caught activity heat-map showing future months as empty27 FEB 2026
  212. [debug]Investigated why PDF viewer overlay failed to load a clicked lecture slide in production26 FEB 2026
  213. [decision]Snitch follow-flow redirected to signup when user is unauthenticated25 FEB 2026
  214. [debug]granular.work demo animation pacing and layout bugs25 FEB 2026
  215. [decision]Replaced referral pledge screen with a privacy-disclosure screen in signup24 FEB 2026
  216. [debug]Investigated why Keno's signup failed open to wrong 6 courses24 FEB 2026
  217. [question]dark matter and undetectable particles23 FEB 2026
  218. [approach]marker-like tests before submission22 FEB 2026
  219. [decision]Specified granular profile chat bar should expand and float on scroll22 FEB 2026
  220. [question]How do profiles get updated without users having to remember to ask?21 FEB 2026
  221. [decision]Rejected over-complex fix plan in favour of targeted patches21 FEB 2026
  222. [question]Asked whether MCP connectors are always-on or require per-chat activation20 FEB 2026
  223. [decision]Removed LMS session gate from personal workspaces19 FEB 2026
  224. [decision]Granular MCP anti-lying design: tie profile updates to real outputs19 FEB 2026
  225. [debug]Investigated why 1,089 lecture notes generation requests failed on launch day18 FEB 2026
  226. [debug]Investigated why snitch MCP connector was not production-ready for workers.dev18 FEB 2026
  227. [approach]deploy via github actions17 FEB 2026
  228. [approach]Using multi-agent parallel audits before every major ship16 FEB 2026
  229. [debug]Extension reconnect popup firing despite extension being connected16 FEB 2026
  230. [insight]Caught double-use of 'show' in granular landing page copy15 FEB 2026
  231. [decision]snitch should be free and public by default15 FEB 2026
  232. [decision]Anti-gaming constraint: AI cannot lie on a user's behalf in Granular14 FEB 2026
  233. [question]how fast does a profile become legible13 FEB 2026
  234. [decision]Chose threads over projects as the profile grouping primitive13 FEB 2026
  235. [debug]Investigated why class group chats showed zero groups after chat button was restored12 FEB 2026
  236. [debug]Investigated why phone OTP gave errors on first attempt during signup11 FEB 2026
  237. [problem]Production Gemini deploy had empty terminal bug occurring every 4th view_file call11 FEB 2026
  238. [insight]The firms page value prop is exclusive data access, not AI analysis10 FEB 2026
  239. [decision]Rebuilt Granular profile from scratch after finding it misrepresented David10 FEB 2026
  240. [debug]Investigated mobile signup handoff bug burning tokens before users clicked them09 FEB 2026
  241. [debug]Lecture notes agent producing 504 errors from Gemini cache expiry08 FEB 2026
  242. [milestone]codex history is a real workbench, not a chat log08 FEB 2026
  243. [approach]pdfs in downloads become headlines07 FEB 2026
  244. [decision]Chose threads over projects as primary profile structure07 FEB 2026
  245. [debug]Investigated new signup that showed 'can't connect to LMS' instead of the fail-open courses UI06 FEB 2026
  246. [debug]Investigated why lecture notes generation was failing and took 20+ minutes05 FEB 2026
  247. [decision]Decided against phased rollout for external-link file resolution fix05 FEB 2026
  248. [debug]Investigated why prefetch_state='failed' showed 'failed' when all 6 files succeeded04 FEB 2026
  249. [milestone]Launched signup competition leaderboard on university app home page04 FEB 2026
  250. [problem]Granular profiles are confusing to first-time visitors03 FEB 2026
  251. [problem]Snitch ChatGPT app had unexpected schema changes that broke the product02 FEB 2026
  252. [milestone]Added per-document podcast button for workspace lecture documents02 FEB 2026
  253. [approach]use subagents when the work is actually orthogonal01 FEB 2026
  254. [insight]AI chat modal should not auto-scroll to follow streaming output01 FEB 2026
  255. [approach]common compute wants outlier design31 JAN 2026
  256. [decision]Decided granular MCP connector must not allow the AI to lie on the user's behalf30 JAN 2026
  257. [decision]Launched 8 parallel agents to brainstorm granular profile redesign30 JAN 2026
  258. [decision]Kept kind colors but banned glyph symbols as kind labels29 JAN 2026
  259. [milestone]snitch shipped because the agent stopped asking28 JAN 2026
  260. [decision]Planned entry ingestion without LLM calls, partitioned across 8 agents28 JAN 2026
  261. [insight]Agent timelines reflect a pre-AI-agent world and should be challenged27 JAN 2026
  262. [decision]Rejected pulse-based MCP cadence in favor of memory-layer reframing27 JAN 2026
  263. [decision]Kicked off full granular profile redesign with 8 vision-and-design agents26 JAN 2026
  264. [debug]Investigated why Daniel's Canvas session appeared expired despite recent sign-in25 JAN 2026
  265. [decision]Defined Canvas chat-to-classmate fanout rules for Kerra group chat25 JAN 2026
  266. [decision]Turned off auto-prewarming so candidates only generate on explicit user clicks24 JAN 2026
  267. [milestone]Emailed 18,000 UCT students about Kerra using Outlook scraping24 JAN 2026
  268. [decision]Instructed plan review to pass no-new-states constraint on sync status23 JAN 2026
  269. [approach]the extension fortress22 JAN 2026
  270. [debug]Investigated why course content sync was failing for own DSP course on production22 JAN 2026
  271. [decision]Granular hero copy: 'Top firms hire top candidates on granular'21 JAN 2026
  272. [approach]show him dont tell him21 JAN 2026
  273. [milestone]Deployed snitch beta to snitch.blog on GoDaddy20 JAN 2026
  274. [decision]Replaced Kerra draft page hero copy with personalised today schedule view19 JAN 2026
  275. [milestone]Removed Telegram from Kerra onboarding and app UI19 JAN 2026
  276. [milestone]granular shipped from zero in three hours18 JAN 2026
  277. [decision]Gave 150+ stuck mobile users free Kerra Pro for 1 year as apology18 JAN 2026
  278. [decision]dont call it LMS to users17 JAN 2026
  279. [decision]Mandated that workspace AI chat agent read every file end-to-end, not just triage16 JAN 2026
  280. [debug]Calendar agent creating Kerra events in wrong timezone16 JAN 2026
  281. [debug]Investigated prefetch_state='failed' mislabelling when all six files succeeded15 JAN 2026
  282. [problem]PDF viewer overlay failed to load on clicked inserted pages15 JAN 2026
  283. [debug]Traced why calendar agents were failing on new signups14 JAN 2026
  284. [decision]Investigated Granular MCP tool visibility to test whether tools are lazily loaded in Claude Desktop13 JAN 2026
  285. [question]Assessed whether a db.t3.small RDS can actually serve 10,000 concurrent users13 JAN 2026
  286. [decision]Extended Kerra SMS reminders from Telegram users to all onboarded users12 JAN 2026
  287. [decision]Commissioned a scale-ready gifting API for Kiss Me with Compute11 JAN 2026
  288. [insight]Tool usage counts inflated by tool_results, not just user messages11 JAN 2026
  289. [artifact]kerrafin is a finance derivative of kerra10 JAN 2026
  290. [debug]Investigated prefetch_state 'failed' contradicting six successful prefetches10 JAN 2026
  291. [problem]OTP signup failures are growth-critical09 JAN 2026
  292. [decision]module planner outputs define lecture candidates08 JAN 2026
  293. [problem]Canvas courses with Google Slides–only content produce empty lecture workspaces08 JAN 2026
  294. [problem]Thread descriptions on granular profiles were vague and non-grounded07 JAN 2026
  295. [debug]bootstrap calendar failures need course-level names07 JAN 2026
  296. [debug]Workspace banners lost New/Earlier sections after a silent state mutation06 JAN 2026
  297. [insight]PPTX files should be handled natively, not transcribed05 JAN 2026
  298. [decision]simulation must use production machinery05 JAN 2026
  299. [debug]Investigated why extension was shown as disconnected despite being active04 JAN 2026
  300. [decision]Rejected proposed lecture-notes UX state machine for adding unnecessary complexity04 JAN 2026
  301. [debug]Snitch MCP connector draft_post failing with opaque tool error03 JAN 2026
  302. [problem]Twilio costs 60x higher than expected for SMS sends02 JAN 2026
  303. [decision]Designed calendar pill link on university home page for direct scroll02 JAN 2026
  304. [question]Investigated how active Kerra users really were on April 25-2701 JAN 2026
  305. [approach]Delegation with parallelism: spawn sub-agents only for orthogonal work to protect coherence01 JAN 2026
  306. [decision]Redact not edit: chose redact as the copy for granular's privacy safety valve31 DEC 2025
  307. [problem]Kerra workspace chat returning 'something went wrong' for free Gemini Flash users30 DEC 2025
  308. [problem]Investigated scroll regression causing erratic position jumps during AI chat navigation30 DEC 2025
  309. [question]is time just sampling rate29 DEC 2025
  310. [problem]Firms page kerra.work/firms had asymmetric entry/exit transitions28 DEC 2025
  311. [decision]Per-document lecture audio: listen-to-this-lecture feature28 DEC 2025
  312. [debug]Investigated own missing Kerra data after signing in to production27 DEC 2025
  313. [debug]Traced canvas external-link gap causing empty Spanish lecture notes27 DEC 2025
  314. [problem]Login broken on granular production — investigated who owns the account at granular.work/david26 DEC 2025
  315. [debug]Investigated why login screen framing confused 'login' with 'signup' on granular25 DEC 2025
  316. [decision]Blocked Kerra login on mobile with a redirect to desktop-only message25 DEC 2025
  317. [decision]Turn off auto-prewarming of lecture notes candidates24 DEC 2025
  318. [debug]Investigated @kerra groupchat bug where agent was not using extension to reach LMS24 DEC 2025
  319. [decision]Required two visual grids to be side-by-side in the profile hero, above the fold23 DEC 2025
  320. [decision]Wanted blocknote table z-index fix so grid picker is usable inside workspace tabs22 DEC 2025
  321. [decision]Set Kerra video budget to 10 hours per day with a UI meter22 DEC 2025
  322. [decision]Require MCP writes to identify which AI tool authored them21 DEC 2025
  323. [problem]Unexpected $50/day ElevenLabs bill from Kerra podcast generation21 DEC 2025
  324. [decision]Decided granular should become Claude's memory layer, not just a publish target20 DEC 2025
  325. [milestone]Drove granular profile redesign end to end in one session19 DEC 2025
  326. [decision]Launched 8 opus agents to understand Kerra systems before coding lecture upload feature19 DEC 2025
  327. [decision]Added repost functionality to snitch v1 scope18 DEC 2025
  328. [problem]workspace agents must search before saying missing18 DEC 2025
  329. [decision]Decided to hide Therapa from the Kerra product UI entirely for now17 DEC 2025
  330. [problem]Glyph symbols for entry kinds rejected as inappropriate for a credibility product16 DEC 2025
  331. [decision]Planned Snitch MCP connector for Claude first, then ChatGPT16 DEC 2025
  332. [debug]Investigated bootstrap calendar agent failure spike and rebuilt failed runs locally to find the fix15 DEC 2025
  333. [problem]Workspace AI chat agent silently stopping mid-task14 DEC 2025
  334. [decision]Changed workspace AI default model to GPT-5.4 mini with medium thinking14 DEC 2025
  335. [insight]AI slop is identifiable by its contrastive sentence rhythm13 DEC 2025
  336. [debug]Investigated Claude Desktop app ignoring settings.json permission grants13 DEC 2025
  337. [debug]Kerra workspace editor cursor jumping back to document name field12 DEC 2025
  338. [decision]Required the accuracy mandate injection in calendar agent view_file to not direct tool calls11 DEC 2025
  339. [debug]Investigated canvas distribution failure: zero intents sent to canvas users11 DEC 2025
  340. [decision]Parallelised prefetch without requiring extension upgrade10 DEC 2025
  341. [decision]Removed generation popup; workspace now opens live immediately on candidate click10 DEC 2025
  342. [debug]Investigated why module planner system prompt used raw file paths at runtime09 DEC 2025
  343. [problem]Canvas courses with Google Slides links instead of downloadable files produce empty lecture notes08 DEC 2025
  344. [question]does the system work like a fortress08 DEC 2025
  345. [problem]lecture notes must include the source pages07 DEC 2025
  346. [decision]Commissioned Kerra 'listen to this lecture' per-document audio feature07 DEC 2025
  347. [decision]Switched calendar agent model from OpenAI to Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite06 DEC 2025
  348. [decision]Designed external-source upload modal for lecture notes missing Canvas files05 DEC 2025
  349. [debug]Investigated why his own signup had no candidates or calendar events05 DEC 2025
  350. [decision]dont pre-gate every workspace on the course site04 DEC 2025
  351. [debug]Investigated why new signups had zero lecture candidates appearing on home page04 DEC 2025
  352. [debug]Investigated broken workspace generation producing repeated error toasts03 DEC 2025
  353. [problem]Granular firms page confuses what data is exclusive to the product02 DEC 2025
  354. [approach]spawn agents, refuse pre-ai timelines02 DEC 2025
  355. [decision]Commissioned granular MCP audit: full profile control plane vs narrow draft tooling01 DEC 2025
  356. [decision]Added anti-fabrication constraint to MCP connector audit01 DEC 2025
  357. [decision]Reset all test users and ran end-to-end signup as a real student to find bugs30 NOV 2025
  358. [decision]premium means restrained and sharp29 NOV 2025
  359. [problem]Signup onboarding complexity blocking the simplicity Kerra needs29 NOV 2025
  360. [debug]Investigated why prefetch ran serially rather than in parallel28 NOV 2025
  361. [problem]Kerra marketing copy implied AI-assisted plagiarism in one sentence27 NOV 2025
  362. [debug]kiss me with compute needs real physical animation27 NOV 2025
  363. [debug]Questioned whether activity count of 53k events was inflated by tool results26 NOV 2025
  364. [decision]Chose virtual card approach for Kiss Me with Compute gifting and rejected subscription model26 NOV 2025
  365. [problem]Growth lead feedback surfaces 40% signup apprehension around privacy25 NOV 2025
  366. [decision]Changed default workspace model to Gemini 3 Flash and gated agent mode to Pro24 NOV 2025
  367. [approach]Injecting PDF text alongside visual pages to force complete content coverage24 NOV 2025
  368. [debug]Investigated missing course candidates for Lesedi's other courses23 NOV 2025
  369. [decision]Decided to gate 'agents has its own computer' and assignment candidates behind pro plan23 NOV 2025
  370. [decision]Relaxed prefetch failure rules to 50% primary coverage threshold22 NOV 2025
  371. [insight]shared LMS sync to monitor TLR is the core Kerra loop21 NOV 2025
  372. [approach]test the risky assumption fast21 NOV 2025
  373. [approach]no placeholders means the product has to be real20 NOV 2025
  374. [debug]Investigated interactive workspace agent lying instead of searching files20 NOV 2025
  375. [debug]Bootstrap calendar agents failing silently for new Notre Dame signup19 NOV 2025
  376. [milestone]Built granular growth reporting with canvas/d2l completion rate split18 NOV 2025
  377. [decision]Rewrote Kerra landing page hero to directly name the internship outcome18 NOV 2025
  378. [decision]Commissioned a real-time live-updating admin UI for Kerra signup tracking17 NOV 2025
  379. [decision]Rejected magazine masthead framing for granular profiles17 NOV 2025
  380. [problem]Gemini context window overflow killing lecture notes runs16 NOV 2025
  381. [decision]follow the paper, not join the beta15 NOV 2025