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Should you harness the harness: inside the Archon engine

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The surprise, reading a workflow engine from the inside, is how little of it is about graphs. Topological sorting is a first-year algorithm and it takes maybe fifty lines. Almost everything else is bookkeeping: who holds the lock, what counts as a fatal error, what happens when a process dies witho…

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  1. 2026-09-21 19:46 · DEV Community — AI
    Should you harness the harness: inside the Archon engine

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