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Cut the Scope First: A Weekend Side Project With One Endpoint and One Smoke Test

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Friday, 9:40 pm. Three side-project ideas. One Sunday deadline. By Saturday noon I had killed two of them. That decision is the whole article. Most weekend projects die from scope, not from code. That is the boring truth. Why "just add an agent loop" ruins the weekend A loop needs state, retries, a…

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  1. 2026-09-15 03:10 · DEV Community — AI
    Cut the Scope First: A Weekend Side Project With One Endpoint and One Smoke Test

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