The CORS Error That Was a Race Condition
The browser blamed CORS. The CORS config was fine. The real fault was two tabs refreshing the same token at the same moment.
Aug 29, 202616 min read6

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The browser blamed CORS. The CORS config was fine. The real fault was two tabs refreshing the same token at the same moment.

A queue that was empty almost always, a consumer polling it once a second forever, and a platform that only bills for CPU when requests arrive.

I measured what a code graph actually saves an AI coding agent across six real tasks, including the case where it costs more than doing nothing.
