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Storing selection state in React Flow node data caused an infinite re-render loop. Moving to React Context kept node objects stable and fixed it.

Code Atlas turns source code into interactive diagrams showing function calls, file relationships, and control flow. Built it because I'm a visual learner.

After building a full ReAct loop when a simple skill would work, I made a complexity mapping tool that forces me to decompose problems before jumping to solutions.

My AI agents wouldn't stop agreeing with each other. Here's what I tried, what failed, and what finally worked.

Same data, different perspectives. We built 5 Explorer personas and watched them find completely different insights from identical datasets.

How changing from a Validator to a Skeptic (and making it ask questions) dramatically improved insight quality in our data exploration pipeline.

I gave a 7B model query tools and asked it to answer the 5 W's of an investigation. On two different datasets, it found the attacks.

I expected the LLM to do the heavy lifting. I learned most of the work should be deterministic.

I ran my data cleaner three times on the same input. Got three different results. That's when I started building safety nets.

I avoided local AI for months. Work forced my hand, and I had a security agent running in a week.