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October 16, 2026

Lesson learned: got blocked by a test that only fails sometimes.

One lesson, learned the hard way, written down so it only has to happen once.

It stopped my push over a text-only change, then passed three times alone and the whole run passed on retry.

Write down a flaky test the first time it bites, or it'll keep stealing pushes.

git testing

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