http://programmer.ie/tags/resumability/ Recent content in Resumability on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:16 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/16-chapter/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:16 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/applied-ai/16-chapter/ <p><em>Part 3 — Give Intelligence a Runtime</em></p> <h2 id="the-step-that-didnt-finish">The step that didn&rsquo;t finish</h2> <p>A process was reviewing a paragraph. It had compiled its context, recorded the call&rsquo;s manifest, and sent the request. While the provider was still working on it, the process died.</p> <p>The standard recovery is familiar: restart, find the step that didn&rsquo;t finish, and run it again. Someone did exactly that in this chapter&rsquo;s experiment, on a copy of the dead process&rsquo;s files, and the step re-ran to completion.</p>