Progress update, 12 Aug 2026

Updates are bullet-point summaries generated with AI from my commits and build notes, then checked by me. Project articles and learning notes are written by me.

MAX_REVIEW_REVISIONS did nothing: the verdict function still compared against a literal 1. It now takes the budget as a parameter, with tests at 0, 1 and 2 rounds.
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B timed out after 241 s because thinking is on by default. Switched the size experiment to Gemma 4, and noted that its <|think|> token isn’t stripped by the <think> filter.
Descriptions were cut off at the first “z”: JavaScript has no \Z anchor, so with the i flag it matched a literal z. Fixed the regex, with a test fixture using car names that contain z.
Read the six drafts the reviewers split on. Codex was right every time, so the plan to loosen it was dropped, along with publishing on a single pass.
Across three batches (62 runs) the publish count moved 2, 3, 1, which is noise. Lint failures by rule are the useful metric; description failures went from 7 to 0 after the parser fix.
Gemma 4 26B-A4B published 20 of 20, but shared 41% of its five-word sequences with the source guide. The next step is a deterministic cap on verbatim overlap.
See What the review gate taught me.