Your UI Is in Japanese. Your Commit Log Isn't.
Setting your editor's display language does nothing for the language your agents write into the repository. Here is what six weeks of unattended runs actually produced, how to pin output language per audience, and a gate that catches the drift mechanically.
A Translated Line Had Quietly Reverted to English — Guarding String Resources an Agent's Refactor Touched
Let an agent tidy your values folder and translated strings can silently revert to the source text. Here is a design and implementation that treats the default locale as the source of truth, reads every other locale as a diff, and blocks only dropped keys, reverted translations, and broken format arguments at pre-commit.
Letting Users Switch the App's Language Without Touching Their Device Language — Notes on Android Per-App Language
How to implement in-app language switching on Android with AppCompatDelegate.setApplicationLocales and locales_config, plus the gotchas around pre-API-33 compatibility, activity recreation, and AdMob, from an implementation point of view.
Five Weeks Letting Antigravity's Background Agent Refresh App Store Screenshots Across Four Apps
An operations log from running Antigravity Background Agent for five weeks to keep the App Store screenshots for four wallpaper apps in sync across eight locales — including the boundaries I kept, the recurring failure modes, and what I learned about where automation should stop.
Two Weeks of Letting Antigravity Translate Localizable.xcstrings Across 8 Languages
A two-week log of letting Antigravity draft 8-language translations for new keys added to Localizable.xcstrings. What I delegated, what I kept under my own judgment, the unexpected behaviors, and how I reconciled drafts against the existing translation corpus.
Configuring Antigravity's Display Language — Separating UI, AI Responses, and Code Comments
How to switch Antigravity's display language and tune the agent's response language separately. Walks through the three independent layers of language settings, with the gotchas you only discover after running into them.