Supervising What You Don't Own: A Controller Loop in OTP

One morning I opened Camelot and saw a card stuck in the executing column. The agent had been "working" on it since the previous day. The funny part is that the work was already done. The agent had written the code, pushed the branch, opened a pull request, and I had merged it myself the evening before. The board just didn't know about any of that. This post is about why that happened, and about…