experiment-at-home

Cache expensive pipeline artifacts (OCR passes, embeddings, parsed corpora, derived datasets) in the shared athome cache instead of ad-hoc pickle files, temp dirs, or hand-rolled digest schemes. Use whenever code re-derives bytes it already computed, needs atomic multi-file artifact writes, or needs record/replay caching of LLM API calls in tests.

Run scripts overnight or on a schedule on macOS: detach long runs from the terminal with completion sentinels, schedule recurring jobs as launchd agents, and make sweeps resumable so a crash retries only the failed units. Use instead of nohup, screen/tmux, cron, or hand-written plists whenever a command should outlive the session or recur on a schedule.