learnfrommistakes · 1

Real backend mistakes,
one at a time.

Not tutorials. Each post is one thing I got wrong: what broke, what I wrongly believed, what was actually happening, and the rule I follow now.

By Utsav Rai, backend dev working on production agentic AI in Node/TS.

  1. #0012026-08-06

    My browser agent died on a function name it never wrote

    esbuild bakes a __name helper into serialized function source. Inside the page, __name doesn't exist.

    leaky-abstractioncaught by manual-testing