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What is really needed is a usable multiplexed pipeline management and event system.

Then you can instrument through metaprogramming. For instance, an alert system could be:

"If the threshold goes over 1.0, contact the on-call person through their preferred method" - which may work ... maybe.

Or:

if any( "check_condition {x}", condition_set ): find_person("on call", right now).contact("preferred")

... the point is to divide everything up into small one-shots, parallelize them, use it as glue/api. Then you get composability. If you can get a framework for coroutines going then it's real game on. The final step is "needs based pulling" which is an inversion of mcp - contextual streams as event based sub-systems.

Things are still too slow for this to be not painful but that won't be the case forever.

Currently everything is linear. Doesn't have to be ... really doesn't.



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