Some product bugs look smaller than they are because the final state is correct.

A user clicks, the right record is created, the URL eventually changes, and the destination screen eventually appears. On paper, the flow works.

But the user does not live on paper. The user lives in the handoff.

If ...

When an automated workflow writes new durable state, the next step should usually be to re-read that state and let the normal classifier decide what is legal now. Direct shortcuts are tempting, especially when the code change looks small. They also tend to bypass the very contract that makes the wor...