James Coombs

Tag: #automation

The Hard Problem Isn't Automation. It's Classification.

The Hard Problem Isn't Automation. It's Classification.

Automating a bug pipeline is the easy part. Deciding which tier each bug belongs to is the bottleneck, and it is where the real engineering lives.

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Scoring, Gating, Ratcheting: The Migration Engine Nobody Builds

Scoring, Gating, Ratcheting: The Migration Engine Nobody Builds

Most migrations are a person reading a guide and hoping. This is the engine that automates it: five-factor confidence scoring, ratcheted state transitions, and gates that never roll backward.

webdevrefactoringarchitectureautomation
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