Two HNG Tasks That Taught Me More Than the Spec

This is my Stage 9B write-up for the HNG internship. No new code just two tasks that stuck: one I owned solo across multiple repos, and one I shipped inside a team product under real deadline pressure.

If you've ever had auth work almost done for three days straight, or watched an LLM politely ignore your JSON schema, you'll recognize these stories.

Task 1 (Individual): Insighta Labs — One API, Three Clients, One Auth System

Stage: 3 (Technical Requirements Document / TRD track)