Posts tagged Raft — AI × software engineering, made practical.
A `sleep(random())` hack cut down on duplicate dispatch bugs but nobody could say why — turns out Raft solved this exact standoff a decade ago, and it's missing two pieces the hack never had.
Borrowing Raft's leader election into a multi-agent LLM pipeline makes the design doc look rigorous — right up until you notice it can't stop the one thing that actually goes wrong: two confident agents disagreeing.