The project compiles a model railroad's signalling layout from KiCad drawings. The owner renamed an office unit from 'SPCoast South' to 'SouthCTC' and a sheet from 'Gilroy Interchange' to 'Gilroy', because spaces broke binding routes. Every one of the 13 failures is a gate asserting an old name or count, none is a code regression. The fix rule they settled on is to freeze each count in its own commit, tagged with the drawing commit it was read from.
Recurring agent failure issue in FieldUnit-Subdivision (plocher)
What engineers report
A recurring agent failure problem in FieldUnit-Subdivision (plocher) that mostly hits the electrical engineer.
Failure pattern: validation / failure
Analyst note
From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 10-11 2026 (Nov 10 8:41 AM ET through Nov 11 7:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-11: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.
What it costs a team
Modeled annual cost
$30,000
For a team of 5
Prototype delay
3 days
Modeled schedule slip per occurrence
Time lost
240 min
Per engineer per month, about 1 incidents
How the cost is modeled
240 min/month × 5 engineers × 12 months = 240 hours × $125/hour = $30,000
A modeled estimate with medium confidence. Swap in your own team size and loaded rate to size it for your team.
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Evidence
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