A podcast episode features Joanna Wang, a senior software engineer at Sixfold, discussing why her team's homegrown orchestration system built on state machines and callbacks became brittle, and what changed after migrating to Hatchet, an open-source orchestration tool. The conversation covers tradeoffs of depending on an unmaintained gem, the shift to a fully agentic workflow, and how AI agents make tracing Rails' metaprogramming magic easier to understand.
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