February 1: Never Writing Code Again

Productive session with 9 pull requests: 5 features, 2 docs, 1 refactor, 1 maintenance. Tackling stability and memory issues.

Developer Journal

Went for a 2.5-mile walk and came back with clarity — skills, workflows, and tasks finally clicked. Built out separate skills for features, tech debt, and bugs, each following a discovery → scope → task → plan → do pipeline. The goal: type /feature and it's off to the races.

Asked friends to review the workflow documentation but acknowledged "it's Sunday and I'm not your infant child." Shared the agent-project-templates repo. Asked Gemini to grade the project as an agentic coding effort — scored an A-, shared proudly.

Claude CLI output showing PR #85 merged and eagerly asking to proceed with Tech Debt #17

"I'm never going to write code again" — said with a mix of unease and acceptance. The conductor role fits, but there's a nagging fear that conductors themselves get replaced by mid-2026. "I am not one of those 10x RTS vibe coders" — this is feature branches, an n-tiered application, and deliberate process. Meanwhile, Claude was reviewing a PR and kept trying to eagerly start tech debt #17 — had to rein it in.

Implementation plan for Task #17 Zoomed Range View showing current vs proposed histogram UX

Claude thinking through a CI lint failure on ImageViewer.tsx during the DI refactor PR

Claude identifying an extra blank line causing a Prettier CI failure

Session summary table showing PRs #101-#104 merged with workflow rules added

Highlights

#86 Implement Zoomed Range View for Histogram (Task #17)

#91 add pixel coordinate and value display on hover in FITS viewer

Add status bar to FITS viewer showing pixel coordinates, values, and WCS sky coordinates on hover
New /pixeldata endpoint returns downsampled pixel array with WCS parameters for client-side coordinate calculations
Instant response during mouse movement (no server calls per hover)

What Changed

Features (5)

#85 Implement Playwright and update agentic docs (Task #39)
#86 Implement Zoomed Range View for Histogram (Task #17)
#87 add test data generation and docs
#88 add documentation viewer with MkDocs
#91 add pixel coordinate and value display on hover in FITS viewer

Refactoring (1)

#93 extract IMongoDBService interface for DI (Task #38)

Documentation (2)

#90 clarify distinction between skills and workflows
#94 Task #38 completion docs and workflow improvements

Maintenance (1)

#92 add mandatory Docker verification to all workflows

42 commits across 9 pull requests. Next: February 2, 2026 — extract shared filter builder to fix pagination co..., add GetSearchCountAsync fix to tech-debt.md and en..., mark A3 pixel coordinate display as complete