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Notes/A focused tooling sprint

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A focused tooling sprint

What two weeks of CLI work taught me about feedback loops and scope control.

  • CLI
  • DX
  • Workflow

Short sprints are dangerous in the best way: they force a single thesis.

Thesis

Make a build log navigable without opening a 20 MB text file. Everything else is a distraction.

Tactics that worked

  • Normalize paths early so diffs line up across machines.
  • Group by rule ID first, file second—humans scan categories before filenames.
  • Ship a --json mode for automation before polishing HTML output.

Tactics that did not

  • Fancy TUI animations before core navigation worked. Pretty is not helpful if you cannot jump.