## Your task

Your task

First, run git status, git diff, and git log --oneline -10 to understand the current state.

Then add and commit all modified files with a descriptive message. Break the changes into multiple commits if appropriate. If there are untracked files, ask if they should be added or added to the appropriate .gitignore file. The user may also want to take over at this point, so provide an abort option as well. Always check changes for unnecessary debugging statements or logging that might have been accidentally included. Prompt the user if you find any, and offer to remove each one by one. Do not use interactive git staging (git add -p) as it does not work.

Your task

First, run git status, git diff, and git log --oneline -10 to understand the current state.

Then add and commit all modified files with a descriptive message. Break the changes into multiple commits if appropriate. If there are untracked files, ask if they should be added or added to the appropriate .gitignore file. The user may also want to take over at this point, so provide an abort option as well. Always check changes for unnecessary debugging statements or logging that might have been accidentally included. Prompt the user if you find any, and offer to remove each one by one. Do not use interactive git staging (git add -p) as it does not work.

Your task

Pull new page captures from the production database and clean them up for use as course readings. Follow this process strictly.

Step 1: Pull captures

Run bun run captures:pull to pull new captures from the production database to content/spring2026/readings/. Note which files are new.

Step 2: Clean remote DB junk

Run the standard cleanup query to remove iframe cruft captures (Disqus, reCAPTCHA, privacy popups):

bun run db:query prod "DELETE FROM page_captures WHERE url LIKE '%disqus%' OR url LIKE '%recaptcha%' OR url LIKE '%privacy-mgmt%';"

Step 3: Clean article cruft

For each new article, remove common capture artifacts:

• Advertisements: Advertisement lines and [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](...) links
• Image credits: Credit... lines (NYT image attribution)
• Bylines/bios: Author name, bio paragraphs that duplicate frontmatter info
• Datelines: Date stamps like "March 12, 2026, 8 AM ET" (the date is in frontmatter)
• Narration credits: Read by... / Narration produced by... / Engineered by... blocks at article end
• Newsletter boilerplate: "You're reading the X newsletter..." subscription cruft
• Internal publication links: [Read: ...] blocks (Atlantic "Read more" cross-links)

Preserve all actual article content, external links, and embedded quotes.

Step 4: Restore section breaks

Open the original article URL and compare with the captured MDX. Where the original article has visual section transitions (extra spacing between sections, decorative dividers, typographic ornaments), add --- in the MDX on its own line with blank lines above and below.

Most publications (Atlantic, NYT, New Yorker) encode section breaks as CSS spacing only, which is lost during the HTML-to-Markdown conversion. These need to be restored manually by comparing with the original article.

Step 5: Preserve media embeds

If the article has an associated video or podcast (e.g., Substack, YouTube), add a responsive iframe embed at the top of the article content:

<div style={{ position: "relative", width: "100%", paddingBottom: "56.25%", marginBottom: "2rem" }}>
  <iframe
    src="EMBED_URL"
    style={{ position: "absolute", top: 0, left: 0, width: "100%", height: "100%", border: "none" }}
    allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"
    allowFullScreen
  />
</div>

Step 6: Add sidenotes

Review each article for opportunities to add 2-4 sidenotes connecting the article content to course themes. The sidenotes should help students relate what they're reading to their hands-on experience with AI in the course.

Sidenote syntax:

[linked text](sn:note-id)

<Sidenote id="note-id">Note content connecting article to course themes.</Sidenote>

Critical placement rules:

• <Sidenote> blocks are JSX and MUST be standalone paragraphs separated by blank lines above and below — NEVER inline within a paragraph
• The [linked text](sn:id) anchor goes inline in the paragraph text; the <Sidenote> block goes between paragraphs
• If the anchor text is mid-paragraph, place the <Sidenote> block after that paragraph ends, NOT splitting the paragraph around it

Critical: replace smart quotes before adding sidenotes. Web captures contain curly/smart quotes (U+201C, U+201D, U+2018, U+2019) that break MDX JSX parsing. Replace them all with straight quotes early in the cleanup process:

python3 -c "
import sys
with open(sys.argv[1], 'r') as f: text = f.read()
text = text.replace('\u201c', '\"').replace('\u201d', '\"').replace('\u2018', \"'\").replace('\u2019', \"'\")
with open(sys.argv[1], 'w') as f: f.write(text)
" FILE.mdx

Guidelines for good sidenotes:

• Connect article claims to students' direct experience (training networks, using AI tools, etc.)
• Point out when multiple readings are in dialogue with each other
• Ask questions that prompt reflection, not just provide commentary
• Keep them concise — 2-3 sentences max

Step 7: Verify

Start the dev server if not running and check each new reading renders correctly:

• No remaining cruft (ads, credits, bylines)
• Sidenotes render (hover/click triggers margin note)
• Video embeds load where present
• No broken paragraph breaks (especially around Sidenote blocks)

Present all changes for review before committing.

Your task

First, run git status, git diff, and git log --oneline -10 to understand the current state.

Then add and commit all modified files with a descriptive message. Break the changes into multiple commits if appropriate. If there are untracked files, ask if they should be added or added to the appropriate .gitignore file. The user may also want to take over at this point, so provide an abort option as well. Always check changes for unnecessary debugging statements or logging that might have been accidentally included. Prompt the user if you find any, and offer to remove each one by one. Do not use interactive git staging (git add -p) as it does not work.

Curretly the db:sync command seems to empty the local embeddings table. Is there a way to avoid that? Even if it's not synced, that way it would not need to be fully rebuilt.

Sure.

It did not work. I had just run the embed but got this: ✓ Snapshotting local embeddings... (no existing tables — will need bun run embed) ✓ Resetting local schema... ✓ Syncing from prod...

OK. I just ran embed and don't want to run it again! Can you add a --dry-run flag to the sync script so that we can debug this without it destroying the embeddings collection again? Or find some other way to debug?

Please run and debug. Lots of errors.

Your task

First, run git status, git diff, and git log --oneline -10 to understand the current state.

Then add and commit all modified files with a descriptive message. Break the changes into multiple commits if appropriate. If there are untracked files, ask if they should be added or added to the appropriate .gitignore file. The user may also want to take over at this point, so provide an abort option as well. Always check changes for unnecessary debugging statements or logging that might have been accidentally included. Prompt the user if you find any, and offer to remove each one by one. Do not use interactive git staging (git add -p) as it does not work.

Your task

First, run git status, git diff, and git log --oneline -10 to understand the current state.

Then add and commit all modified files with a descriptive message. Break the changes into multiple commits if appropriate. If there are untracked files, ask if they should be added or added to the appropriate .gitignore file. The user may also want to take over at this point, so provide an abort option as well. Always check changes for unnecessary debugging statements or logging that might have been accidentally included. Prompt the user if you find any, and offer to remove each one by one. Do not use interactive git staging (git add -p) as it does not work.

OK! We have only one more meeting to design for tomorrow, it's our last! Did you already do this or are we starting from scratch? The goal is to get feedback and discussion from students about the course itself.

Yes! And we should have a e2e test, correct? Is it worth creating a conversational preparation chat for this meeting to ask some of the same questions and get students thinking?

Ah, but the issue here is that we lose data, since I'm worried that we won't get the readouts from in-group conversation. I'll be notetaking, but still. Thoughts on that angle? I mostly agree with you, but that was my thinking?

Yes.

Run the e2e test for this meeting and then we'll deploy.

Your task

First, run git status, git diff, and git log --oneline -10 to understand the current state.

Then add and commit all modified files with a descriptive message. Break the changes into multiple commits if appropriate. If there are untracked files, ask if they should be added or added to the appropriate .gitignore file. The user may also want to take over at this point, so provide an abort option as well. Always check changes for unnecessary debugging statements or logging that might have been accidentally included. Prompt the user if you find any, and offer to remove each one by one. Do not use interactive git staging (git add -p) as it does not work.

Your task

First, run git status, git diff, and git log --oneline -10 to understand the current state.

Then add and commit all modified files with a descriptive message. Break the changes into multiple commits if appropriate. If there are untracked files, ask if they should be added or added to the appropriate .gitignore file. The user may also want to take over at this point, so provide an abort option as well. Always check changes for unnecessary debugging statements or logging that might have been accidentally included. Prompt the user if you find any, and offer to remove each one by one. Do not use interactive git staging (git add -p) as it does not work.

Actually, one thing I want to make sure we ask about for tomorrow is scale. Currently we've been having share-outs in the entire group, but if this was taught in (say) 100 student sections, that would not be feasible.

Your task

First, run git status, git diff, and git log --oneline -10 to understand the current state.

Then add and commit all modified files with a descriptive message. Break the changes into multiple commits if appropriate. If there are untracked files, ask if they should be added or added to the appropriate .gitignore file. The user may also want to take over at this point, so provide an abort option as well. Always check changes for unnecessary debugging statements or logging that might have been accidentally included. Prompt the user if you find any, and offer to remove each one by one. Do not use interactive git staging (git add -p) as it does not work.