Devlog
Building Second Chance
What was attempted, what broke, and what the fix turned out to be. Written for anyone building something similar.
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Standing Up and Going Nowhere
A sit-and-stand bug that had been shrugged off in the pub for weeks turned out to be
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Four Centimetres Under
A man stood outside the depot having a cigarette and James asked whether he was on
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It Was Never the Frame Rate
A nine-second shot of a man in a lorry cab looked like it was running at fifteen
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The Man Who Does It for a Living
A refuse loader who does the job for a living watched the bin round and said the
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Forty-Five Listeners
Taking out a fishing rod switched the head torch off, because one key was feeding
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The Box That Was Not a Box
A day building the physical kit for the eBike food-delivery gig - a top box, a paper bag, a rear rack and a branded courier jacket on a MetaHuman. Four things went wrong and every one of them passed a check first: a box whose faces all pointed inwards, a wheel radius three separate maths fits got wrong, materials that reported themselves bound while the mesh shipped grey, and a logo that was invisible because it was plugged into the wrong colour layer.
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Signs in Mid-Air
Fitting out the bookies on the corner - carpet, wallpaper, a lowered branded ceiling raft, a counter and two fruit machines - and the four traps that made it take twice as long. A centre-pivot cube that threw the ceiling signage into mid-air, a rug that shipped as the engine checkerboard while every readback insisted it was perfect, a second run that refused to wallpaper the walls it had just papered, and an editor that reported an actor missing right up until two of them turned up in play.
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Zero Bytes
A one-line find-and-replace destroyed 155 KB of hard-won build notes on a project with no version control, because opening a file for writing empties it before anything can go wrong. Ninety-six per cent of it came back out of the AI agent's own session transcripts, and the recovery had four wrong turns of its own. Also - the fruit machine that paid nothing because a perfectly correct function was called by absolutely nobody.