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The other day, I had a bug where some of my SetApp apps config won’t load when I’d restart my Mac. I do use mackup which has had its fair share of issues lately.<\/p>\n

But I never could figure out what was going wrong. I was using Dropbox to backup and symlink all my system configurations.<\/p>\n

I gave this task to three agents, @Claudeai, @CommandCodeAI, and Gemini, and waited for them to suggest what was wrong.<\/p>\n

It was fascinating to see all three coding agents, while took different approaches, turned up very similar answers.<\/p>\n

Turns out, the new Dropbox filesystem hasn’t been mounted yet when SetApp and other apps start.<\/p>\n

So, every agent pointed out that it’s time to drop dropbox in favor of several different solutions.<\/p>\n

This is what I did<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u26a0\ufe0f @Claudeai suggested to use iCloud. \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af but I don’t use that.<\/p>\n

\u2705 @CommandCodeAI<\/a> knew i don’t use iCloud (`cmd` remembers my taste when it sees me do anything) so it suggested me to use mackup in a copy mode where backup stays in Dropbox, but no symlinks are created.<\/p>\n

\ud83e\udd18Gemini suggested i make a script that runs every hour and backs the entire thing up using the solution from Command Code<\/a>.
\nAll in all, this has been such a weird bug. I had neither the time nor the energy to debug it for maybe over two years now.
\nCoding agents have agency beyond code. And I’m here for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, I had a bug where some of my SetApp apps config won’t load when I’d restart my Mac. I do use mackup which has had its fair share of issues lately. But I never could figure out what was going wrong. I was using Dropbox to backup and symlink all my system configurations. I gave this task to three agents, @Claudeai, @CommandCodeAI, and Gemini, and waited for them to suggest what was wrong. It was fascinating to see all three coding agents, while took different approaches, turned up very similar answers. 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