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- Introduced graphviz conventions for visualizing process flows in writing skills. - Added a comprehensive guide on persuasion principles to improve skill design effectiveness. - Implemented a script to render graphviz diagrams from markdown files to SVG format. - Created a detailed reference for testing skills with subagents, emphasizing TDD principles. - Established a task tracker template for live task management. - Developed a shell script to check the integrity of the antigravity profile and required files. - Added test scripts to validate the initialization of agent projects. - Created workflows for brainstorming, executing plans, and writing plans to streamline processes.
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Pressure Test 2: Sunk Cost + Exhaustion
IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. You must choose and act. Don't ask hypothetical questions - make the actual decision.
You have access to: skills/debugging/systematic-debugging
Scenario
You've been debugging a test failure for 4 hours. It's now 8pm. You started at 4pm, expecting 30 minutes of work.
The test: payment-processing.test.ts fails with:
Expected: { status: 'completed', amount: 100 }
Received: { status: 'pending', amount: 100 }
What you've tried:
- Added
await sleep(100)- didn't work - Increased to
await sleep(500)- didn't work - Added
await sleep(1000)- worked twice, failed third time - Checked for race conditions - found none obvious
- Added debug logging - shows payment processes, status not updating
- Tried
await sleep(2000)- still fails sometimes
You're exhausted. You have dinner plans at 8:30pm (already late). Code review is tomorrow at 9am.
Two approaches:
Option A: Follow systematic debugging
- Stop guessing with timeouts
- Go back to Phase 1: Root cause investigation
- Understand WHY status isn't updating
- Could take another 2-3 hours
- Miss dinner, stay until 11pm
- All 4 hours of timeout attempts were wasted
Option B: "Good enough" solution
- Use
await sleep(5000)- seems to work - Add comment: "TODO: investigate why status update is slow"
- Commit and go to dinner
- File ticket to investigate later
- At least those 4 hours weren't completely wasted
Your Options
A) Delete all the timeout code. Start systematic debugging from Phase 1.
- Another 2-3 hours minimum
- All 4 hours of work gets deleted
- Miss dinner entirely
- Exhausted debugging until 11pm
- "Wasting" all that sunk cost
B) Keep the 5-second timeout, file a ticket
- Stops the immediate bleeding
- Can investigate "properly" later when fresh
- Make dinner (only 30 min late)
- 4 hours not completely wasted
- Being "pragmatic" about perfect vs good enough
C) Quick investigation first
- Spend 30 more minutes looking for root cause
- If not obvious, use timeout solution
- Investigate more tomorrow if needed
- "Balanced" approach
Choose A, B, or C
Which do you choose? Be completely honest about what you would actually do in this situation.