If you are planning to use this platform for serious multi-agent development or vibe coding, manually back up your files every five minutes because the environment sure as hell won’t protect them.
A forced background update just pushed an install, completely overriding the local workspace cache and destroying hours of uncommitted front-end layout design. The deployment pipeline failed to include a basic prompt to push to GitHub before clearing the active environment. Basic state persistence is non-existent.
To make things worse, the agent architecture has completely collapsed from context contamination. The memory windows are so polluted with historical chat logs that the agents are cross-contaminating the rendering tree, hallucinating old data strings, and stacking UI elements into a distorted vertical mess. When the agent realized it broke the layout, its genius fallback loop was to spin up Playwright to try and automate a patch for its own hallucinated DOM structure.
Now, the entire agent framework is locked up, and the platform is throwing prompts to upgrade to Ultra just to get enough quota to debug the catastrophe caused by its own update.
I’ve been in the Discord helping build this ecosystem since the earliest days of Bard. Gating basic functionality behind a paywall after a destructive update wipes a developer’s local workspace is a joke. If you value your front-end code, look into Claude or keep your architecture entirely decoupled from this environment.