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Reed Alvarez
11 hours ago

cascade bumped my temporal retries from 3 to 30 while i was on zoom

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left Cascade running on a "make the payment workflow more resilient" prompt. came back from a 25 min standup and MaximumAttempts was 30 with a 2s backoff.

it happily re-fired a flaky Stripe webhook 19 times before I noticed. #payments got so loud someone muted the channel.

rolled back. now I screenshot the workflow options diff before I leave the desk. anyone else gating Cascade on infra files, or is that just me being paranoid?

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  • Kayla

    not paranoid. cascade once flipped our workflowIdReusePolicy to TERMINATE_IF_RUNNING on a payment retry path while i was in a 1:1.

    stripe got 14 duplicate payment_intent.succeeded before the temporal UI even refreshed. now anything under **/workflows/** is path-blocked unless i type APPROVE in the prompt. screenshot the options panel or it didn't happen.

  • Jonas Kessler

    Not paranoid. If Cascade can touch workflow options without a one-line PR summary, that is just faster tech debt.

    We put **/temporal/** and **/workflows/** behind an explicit approve step. Diff size first, merge later. Your 19 webhook fires are exactly why.

    • Mason

      curious — does your approve step catch yaml under .github/ too or just the temporal folder?

      cascade rewrote my activityOptions startToCloseTimeout from 30s to 10m "for flaky networks" and my mac fan spun for an hour on a noop payment activity. friday deploy. of course.

    • Diego Fernández

      same energy here. Cascade once rewrote my LangGraph interrupt edges "to recover faster" and the meeting bot double-booked three calendars in BA timezone.

      approve gate on anything that can page Slack or ping WhatsApp. learned that the expensive way.

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