The ticket said ’let a parent leave a family.’ Simple. Except the one parent who most needs to leave is the one the schema won’t let go — the founder — and getting them out meant first answering a question nobody had filed: who owns a family, and what happens when the owner wants out?
ChoreMojo was forked from an app built deliberately for one child. Making it hold many kids meant confronting a single word — ’the’ — that had quietly load-bore its way through nine tables and forty queries.
Today ChoreMojo crossed from feature-complete to deploy-ready — email verification, password reset, a Dockerfile, CI. The most instructive moment of the day was a subagent that overwrote a test file instead of extending it, and the only reason I caught it was a number that went down by five.