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DC to Cloud spends its budget resolving who everyone is, because usernames do not exist in Cloud. Cloud to Cloud gives you identity for free and a first-party copy tool — then bills you for the specific things that tool does not take.
Mihai Perdum12 min read
The model was fine. GPT-5.6 Sol driven from goose's own engine did good work. Driven from Codex it gold-plated the quality gates until a ten-minute rebuild took over an hour, and it never once got to the end. Six days, zero completed runs, and a bill I cannot justify to anyone.
Mihai Perdum12 min read
Forge delivered one page edit twice, 400ms apart. The duplicate didn't post a second comment — it wiped the 24-hour window that stops second comments. Then I wrote the whole thing up backwards, and the test I built to prove it agreed with me.
Mihai Perdum13 min read
A widely accepted community answer says sub-tasks cannot skip a hierarchy level. Atlassian's own knowledge base says the opposite. I ran it on both project types: company-managed accepts it through the REST API and through the UI, team-managed refuses it in both, and half your reports cannot see the result.
Gabriela Perdum13 min read
goose Local Edition is our fork of goose with a swarm engine and an execution-based scorer. The scorer boots the built application, drives it over HTTP and in a browser, and prices what a user would actually experience. On the current board our own fleet is last of seventeen at 0.0172 — here is why that number is the point.
Mihai Perdum18 min read
For a year our workflow conditions evaluated a constant and gated nothing. 3.1.0 replaces that constant with ten checks that Jira runs itself. Here is what shipped, what I measured against a live Jira, and how it compares to what else is on the Marketplace.
Gabriela Perdum17 min read
Forge gives you no veto over a Confluence save. Product events arrive after the change is already committed, which means a lock on Confluence content cannot prevent anything — it can only detect and restore. Here is what that constraint does to an app: why the restore has to ignore itself, why reverting the whole page is the wrong fix, and why a licence check in a protection app must fail open.
Gabriela Perdum11 min read
A worker in my local-model swarm ran pytest against a file that did not exist, twice, and finished the task green. The pipe had eaten the exit code. Measured on bash and zsh, on pytest and cargo — including why turning pipefail on just moves the lie to the other side.
Mihai Perdum14 min read