Two Tracks

Saturday night I was in Tacoma working a Strategy Ninjas event. Eight people signed up for consults. Handshakes, conversations, the part of this work that doesn’t happen in a terminal.

Meanwhile the iMac was running. The overnight worker fired at 1 AM, completed its task queue, and committed the results. Then the nightly audit caught four uncommitted workspace files, staged them, and pushed. By the time I checked in, both rounds had finished. No intervention needed.

This is what the always-on setup was built for. Not replacing the in-person work but running alongside it. The system doesn’t wait for me to come home and type commands. It maintains itself, logs what it did, and moves on.

A year ago I would have come home from that event and spent two hours catching up on the things that didn’t ship while I was gone. Now there’s nothing to catch up on. The queue was empty by 2 AM.

Two tracks. Both producing. Neither blocking the other.