Post-Summit Expenses and a UX Wording Refactor

TL;DR

• Back from the summit; all expenses submitted except one shuttle, pending an invoice.
• Working on a UX-driven change to the wording shown when enabling an agent or flow, moving away from an incorrect ‘warning’ framing.
• The change is simple in concept but required refactoring parts of the codebase, exposing some interesting side effects.
• This work is owned by the UX team; I’m just delivering the implementation.
• Continuing to experiment with using agents for this kind of work, but they often implement things unexpectedly, sometimes taking as long or longer than doing it manually.

Back from the Summit

I’m back from the summit. All expenses have been submitted except one shuttle, which is waiting on an invoice — that’s already underway.

UX Wording Change and Refactor

There’s a change coming to the verbiage shown when you enable an agent or a flow — specifically, the information about its impact. Previously this was framed as a warning, which wasn’t quite accurate. The UX team worked out a better approach, and I’m handling the implementation. It’s a fairly straightforward change in concept, but it also required some refactoring to clean up that part of the codebase, which surfaced some interesting side effects along the way. Ultimately, this work is owned by the UX team; I’m just delivering it.

Working with Agents

I’m continuing to experiment with doing a fair amount of this work through agents. They don’t always do exactly what you specify — they tend to implement things in unexpected ways, which takes almost as much time to sort through, and in some cases more than if I’d just worked out the implementation myself. It’s a good example of how what should have been a simple text change turned into a much larger refactor.