Both calls sit in a closure where a narrowing of `Placer | None` and `PythonWorkerPool | None` will not carry across the function boundary. The `remote.run_on` line below them already carried the same ignore; these two close out `make lint-backend`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01K1moruzue2kTJd3uVisgNk