Hard architectural analyses, process tree forensics, and epistemic debugging methodologies for developers building with Cursor, Claude Code, and autonomous coding agents.
Dissecting the autoregressive context contamination and cognitive tunnel vision that causes agents to churn dirty files in a 3:00 AM loop, and why deterministic circuit breakers outperform prompt pleas.
The forensics behind silent terminal hangs: unhandled (y/n)? stdin prompts, rogue watch-mode loops, and orphaned worker threads locking ports :3000 and :5173. Introducing the Cascade Tree Killer.
Applying Karl Popper's falsificationism to autonomous coding. Replacing polite conversational apologies with the 12 Canonical Rites: Wrong Altar, Check the Check, and Clean-Context Resurrection.
A hands-on, zero-friction guide to provisioning the 2-Strikes Circuit Breaker across all 9 major editors, checking visual telemetry on port 3900, and saving tokens with zero runtime dependencies.