still working on crashes

backend/main.py

@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ from routers import transcribe, export, ai, captions, audio
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-# Dev log file — frontend forwards console.error/warn here so the agent can read it
-DEV_LOG_PATH = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "webview.log"
+# Dev log file — keep outside workspace to avoid dev watcher reload loops.
+DEV_LOG_PATH = Path(
+    os.environ.get("TALKEDIT_DEV_LOG_PATH", str(Path(tempfile.gettempdir()) / "talkedit-webview.log"))
+)
 
 
 @asynccontextmanager
@@ -205,6 +207,7 @@ async def dev_log(request: Request):
     if args:
         line += " " + " ".join(args)
     line += "\n"
+    DEV_LOG_PATH.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
     with open(DEV_LOG_PATH, "a") as f:
         f.write(line)
-    return {"ok": True}
+    return {"ok": True, "path": str(DEV_LOG_PATH)}