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A rule reads a dropdown answer off a Jira form, runs clean, logs no error, and leaves the field empty. Two things are wrong and both are in the rule rather than the log. Here is the mechanism, the full field-type mapping, and the check that decides whether any of it applies to you: there are two unrelated features called Forms and only one of them automation can see.
Gabriela Perdum18 min read
I wrote my own Agent Client Protocol client, ran the same bug-fix fourteen times, and logged every frame. The agent never once touched my client's filesystem — and inside the working directory, the editor's permission dialog never sees a read at all.
Mihai Perdum16 min read
I quantised real Qwen3-Coder weights both ways on an M3 Ultra. MXFP8 reconstructs them about 10x worse than 8-bit affine at identical size — and then costs only 1% perplexity end to end. Both numbers are true, and the gap between them is the interesting part.
Mihai Perdum14 min read
App passwords are removed on 28 July 2026, and in the final week they were already dark 20 hours out of every 24. Here is the failure signature, the four different usernames nobody can keep straight, why swapping in a token often changes nothing, and the reason almost no team can tell you who is still affected.
Gabriela Perdum13 min read
Three weeks after the swarm shipped its first honest builds, the work stopped being about making small local models smarter and became about making them stop lying to me. Here is what 602 commits bought, what the desktop looks like now, and the three defects I found in my own honesty machinery while writing this post.
Mihai Perdum14 min read
Clean up before you migrate is the most-repeated advice in the Atlassian world, and almost nobody takes it. Not because they're lazy — because every incentive in the room, mine included, is paid to move more, not less. Follow the money.
Mihai Perdum7 min read
Everyone's braced for the 2029 Data Center deadline. Almost nobody's watching the one that lands on 31 January 2027 — sitting under the apps you already paid to move. Atlassian Connect is on a published end-of-support countdown, and two of its three phases have already passed.
Mihai Perdum7 min read
We built a harness that makes local coding agents produce real software, grades it by running it, and ran the same model as GGUF and MLX. Here's the harness, its modes and archetypes — and which build to run.
Mihai Perdum12 min read