The failure mode that bit hardest in this session: declaring an autolearning loop complete because 'three iterations of the pattern shipped clean,' without ever looking at the actual rendered screen. The Workouts tab still showed a raw '2026-05-12' ISO string at the top, every row redundantly labeled 'TUE MAY 12,' all rows floating on a near-identical background — and the assistant had already written a 'pausing here, three iterations is enough' summary. Commit count is a proxy for progress, not progress itself. The screenshot is the spec; the loop is done when the screenshot stops revealing new gaps, not when the assistant runs out of edits it knows how to make.
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