Topic

State machines

A way of modelling a process as a fixed set of named states and the permitted transitions between them, used to make the possible next actions explicit rather than inferred.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

A doc fix and a payments schema migration need different gates in the same repository

Anthropic's playbook says code is no longer the bottleneck, and the spec-driven tools around it each prescribe one fixed sequence of stages. The New Stack argues the process should be data an organization defines itself.

Publishers:thenewstack.io

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption18
Hype gap+24
Incentives55
Confidence44

build1 publisher

Treating a publish timeout as failure is how a retry can send the same article twice

A dev.to postmortem works through what a publishing runner has to record when the browser stops answering between the click and the proof, because an ambiguous timeout leaves open whether the article went out.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption10
Hype gap+18
Incentives28
Confidence55