04 MAR 2026
David decided: Upload modal design: no acknowledgement checkbox, no raw URLs
David shaped the design of a new file-upload modal for missing external lecture sources, rejecting two agent-proposed UI patterns.
When an agent proposed reusing an existing FileUploadModal component and adding an acknowledgement checkbox, David rejected both:
no, that one is too small and i dont like it. we need to build ours from scratch.
remove this [the acknowledgement checkbox]
For the item display, he also rejected showing raw URLs as the primary visual, insisting on a structured layout showing source title, context, host badge, and an open-source button instead. He cut the complexity on fallback title resolution too:
no that is overcomplicating it
Then he sent 6 GPT-5.4 xhigh subagents to audit the full plan before coding began, asking them to identify race conditions, failure modes, and schema gaps the main plan hadn't addressed.