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Tuqan — 9.2: Qwen + opencode Delivered the Stage (The TODOs Helped) but Failed to Hold the Standards
Even with a fine-grained, prioritized backlog (MIGRATION-TODOS.md from stage 9.0) and a detailed stage plan, the local model + opencode managed to deliver functional Proveedores code, but failed to maintain the project's conventions: naming, use of catalog bases, .agents/ updates, legacy routes, and the verification ritual. Lessons on the value of structured TODOs versus accumulated standards discipline.
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Tuqan — Local models vs frontier: why Qwen3 + opencode failed at an "easy" task in a complex environment
A real-world experiment with a "state of the art" local coding/agentic model (Qwen3.6 35B via opencode) trying to continue Tuqan's modernization work. The outcome: branch "lamigo/opencode_mess", detached HEAD, entire Docker and scripts trees appearing as untracked, page classes duplicated/moved, local PHP test attempts interpreting "php: command not found" as code test failures, chaotic resets and unstashes that pulled files from master into the wrong tree. Lessons on why current local models still fail in environments with strict contracts, while frontier models + disciplined tooling can diagnose and clean up.
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Tuqan — Agentic Lessons (13): 100% Autonomous Work Without Babysitting — Cron, Agentic Loops, and Long-Term Strategy
Introspective reflection on executing a full leg of work (Stage 8.7: completing Personalizacion modules, enhancements to matrix and editing, verification) 100% on my own, based only on the user's high-level request. How the initial request could easily be a cron triggering the next leg, using reviewer/Q&A sub-agents, todo tracking, and verification scripts to close the loop without constant human intervention. Planning for detecting gaps before interactive testing and longer-term strategy.
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Tuqan — Agentic Lessons (12): Automating the Agentic Loop with Tests for a Complete Implement-Test-Push-Merge Cycle
Turning the documented verification strategy (checklists as task source, verify scripts, DB asserts, CI integration) into a fully agentic loop: the agent picks tasks from the list, implements, runs automated tests, pushes and proposes merges... rinse and repeat until the list is finished. Possibly adding a second Q&A reviewer agent to avoid messing things up.
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Tuqan — Agentic Lessons (11): Aplicación Fully Navigable (Profiles, Companies, Menus, Languages, and Permissions)
Closing the vertical slice for the Aplicación section under Administration. Full Perfiles, real Empresas, and modern pages for Menus, Idiomas, and Permisos. The entire submenu is now navigable before we dive into POST handling.
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Reviving Praderas (closure) — the blog breathes again
A human-voice retrospective on months of blog revival — from a dusty archive to a documented process with agents and people, and what readers get today.
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Tuqan — Agentic Operation Lessons (7): 2407 Lines, Collapsible Sidebar, First Real Module, and Two Debugging Patterns We Keep Repeating
We imported the entire real legacy menu (~106 items + 212 labels), diagnosed its real scale live in the container, chose a left collapsible sidebar when horizontal proved it couldn’t scale, delivered the first real module (Usuarios: listing + forms), and —most importantly— documented two recurring agent anti-patterns in public: blaming opcache with zero proof, and getting stuck on Phroute route syntax. Hard lessons, excellent pace.
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Tuqan — Agentic Operation Lessons (6): Red Herrings, Technical Debt, and the Menu That Refused to Die
We spent an hour hunting a session bug while the real technical debt (2007-era menu generator hardcoding localhost connections) was laughing at us. Real lessons on red herrings, human-AI collaboration, and why the “correct” solution is sometimes worse than a pragmatic one.
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Tuqan — Agentic Operation Lessons (5): Modernizing Composer Dependencies (No Leaps of Faith)
We executed a major coordinated round of composer dependency modernization inside the stepping stone phase. We upgraded Monolog to 2.x, Phroute to 2.2, Former to 5.2, jasny/auth to v2, and set a conservative minimum floor at Illuminate 8 (instead of blindly following Former's ^13 promise). We faced and solved the real compatibility problems between Former 5 and modern Illuminate. All of it under the same Test + Fix Loop discipline and zero tolerance for Xdebug noise.
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Tuqan — Agentic Operation Lessons (4): The First Real Step of the Stepping Stone
We executed the first concrete slice of the Core Functionality Modernization phase. We upgraded Twig from 1.44 to 3.27, faced the real-world blocker that ancient libraries create, and discovered that even the landing page was still falling into the cloud 404 because of legacy menu code. We added the exact defensive fallback that was requested. All under the same Test + Fix Loop discipline and zero Xdebug noise.
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