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Why I Stopped Trusting My Own Backlog.md
A developer realized his AI agent gave outdated info because his backlog.md wasn't synced with actual published articles. He now relies on git log and state.json instead of manually maintained markdown files. The lesson: treat summaries as caches that require automatic refresh mechanisms.
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A practical cautionary tale about the fragility of manual documentation in AI-assisted workflows, but the core insight—treat summaries as caches—is a solid engineering principle that applies beyond solo devs.
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Pourquoi j'ai cessé de lire mon propre backlog.md (et ce que je lis à la place) →
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