Who merges so late, past midnight's chime, still pushing bugs to master's line?
The runtime existence check that kept one index rewrite safe to deploy in either order was a one-off. Here’s the same pattern turned into a reusable pre-deploy CI gate for a whole network.
A one-line exception guard turned into a 465-line diff because a formatter had rewritten the whole file first. The fix wasn’t the guard — it was separating the reformat from the change before anyone had to review it.
A shared plugin version bump, a branch-validation step, a version-skew incident, five index migrations across a network, and a documented PR — run as one supervised agent loop instead of six separate manual steps.