Worked on the charmbracelet/crush repository to enhance backend stability and user experience, focusing on reliability during initialization and onboarding processes. Addressed critical issues such as crash prevention and nil-pointer safety by refining model and agent update flows, ensuring robust input handling throughout the Go codebase. Improved the chat interface by implementing visual-width-based text truncation and clarified permission messaging for collaborative editing. Removed the 100MB file size limit to support larger-file workflows, reducing onboarding friction and editing downtime. Leveraged Go and backend development skills to optimize UI/UX performance, ultimately enabling smoother collaboration and expanding the platform’s capabilities for larger teams.