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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Nobody Walked In
Four sessions of navmesh work built a correct route from the street to the bar, and the NPC spawner never put a single body on it - plus the voxel arithmetic that stops stairs meshing, a door leaf that eats a doorway, and a coverage figure that read 100% because the question was wrong.
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Thirty Defects in One Sitting
A human drove the game while an agent fired 2560x1440 captures and read every frame as it landed. It found about thirty defects in one sitting, closed a bug that had been open for twelve days, and - just as usefully - produced three confident diagnoses that a readback then demolished.
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OK at Every Step
A tool that returns the wrong shape instead of an error took a live email signup form down, and reported success while doing it. What went wrong, how it was found, and the guard that now catches it.
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It Would Not Open
The Windows app exited on its own and then refused to open at all; three plausible fixes (Windows repair, pruning a 6 GB session-history folder, a GPU setting) all did nothing, and the real cause turned out to be the app restoring a saved in-app browser preview pointed at a local dev server.
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Too Big to Remember
A week of compacting, restructuring and pruning an AI coding agent's memory, including the night the whole knowledge store was archived by accident and came back only because one session went looking for one note.
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A Job Nobody Wants
A pub cleaning job built on top of a toilet minigame reached eight-of-eight phases and passed a live in-editor test measuring exactly the predicted numbers - and a pre-test adversarial audit had already found six critical defects that every automated check in the project called clean.
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Twelve Hours on the Grass
A day spent making 98 hectares read as a parkland golf course. The grass layer took twelve hours, got fixed, and was then deleted on purpose - what actually sold the course was 274 trees, 2,180 shrubs, 212 gorse bushes, 79 molehills, a fence, and a flock of rooks that first appeared eight centimetres underground.
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The Score Kept Improving
A police uniform's torso was rebuilt for a fortnight while an automated coverage score kept improving and the same holes kept appearing around the neck - because the gate filtered out the two regions being complained about.