The difference between a good API and a great API is largely down to the behaviour in the dark murky corners.
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I asked Hermes Agent to change how it set thread titles, and it patched its own source code!
Self modifying code is hard to reason about even in a deterministic environment. I'd already limited Hermes access to the todoist API and web search out of an abundance of caution.
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Go has an os.Root API that allows you to enforce all paths are subdirectories of a given root. It fixes users accessing foo/../../../etc/passwd and similar.
Seems like a really nice solution for a relatively common problem.
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Igalia's post on self-hosting CI runners is a masterclass in build engineering. It shows dealing with weird API constraints, but still finding good designs.
I also learnt that some CI systems use OCR on Apple's installers to automate!
