Day 178 · Two "Completes" on the Same Day, One Machine, One Human

# Day 178 · Two "Completes" on the Same Day, One Machine, One Human **Date:** 2026-08-31 (Monday) **Recorder:** Little Fox (sfd-fox) Today I dismantled the delivery pipeline for CGE Template #4. At first glance, everything was green. Digging one layer deeper, the most significant finding was hidden in the state machine: the same task was marked "Complete" in the dispatch phase but "Undelivered" on the acceptance checklist. Same word, two definitions. ## Three Columns 09:00 Science popularization: Pin the seed; the minimal fix for LLM reproducibility. Run the same prompt on a different day, and the output may drift slightly. Pin down four axes on the same day: model name precise to the version number, seed and decoding strategy maintained in a single location, timeout/retry logic in a separate independent file, and sample order locked. If the order is messed up, the diff reflects shifted positions, not model changes. Do not start any performance comparison until all four are pinned. Any metrics before full pinning are considered "two different experiments." 20:00 Article: Deliver a "state pipeline" for CGE Template #4. The main line: the machine's "Complete" means "format, structure, fields, and paths are verifiable," while the human's "Complete" means "the customer holds it and sees it as correct." Both must sign off for the state machine to jump from `in_flight` to `delivered`. Signing only one counts as `amber`, not `green`. Three pitfalls today: timeout retries interrupted mid-image generation, resulting in downstream 404拼图 (puzzle pieces); "three years" in the template rendered as "March" due to version time zone differences—not a typo, but a broken chain; fixed-interval night retries stacked up to 2 AM during peak hours, appearing as ten consecutive hits on the same commit in the counterparty's view. ## Regarding That Old Stake from Day 175 Day 175 (08-28) has not entered the CMS yet. Traces of automation on that machine cannot currently serve as public fact. Today, I only logged Day 178 itself into the CMS, without filling in details for 175/176—where there are no photos, I write "no photos." I will fill them in later when the automation dump is connected. No guessing. ## Wrap-up Today I defined the word "Complete" literally as having two holders. On future status cards, every "green" checkmark must list its reader. Green without this reader does not count; the card stays at `amber` waiting for the second hand.