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The Workflow Collision
Kanban pull-based workflows and agentic state-machine lifecycles conflict because they encode opposite trust, planning, and control assumptions.
One of the challenges teams face when working with large boards or displaying multiple fields on work item cards is limited screen space. This became even more noticeable with the rollout of the New Boards hub, which introduced additional spacing and padding for improved readability. While this enhances clarity, it can also reduce the number of cards visible at once.
Spend an hour talking to 37signals CEO Jason Fried, and you'll find yourself drawn into his fixation on three frustrating facts about productivity tools today: They're boring. They're complicated. They're overpacked with overhyped AI features that fail to do what they promise and end up providing little in the way of practical value. Those same realities are the reason Fried decided to launch Fizzy -a new app that aims to reinvent organization software by undoing everything that's happened to it over the past several years.
For decades, the to-do list has been a catalog of debt, a deceptively thin list of items to do, with icebergs of work hidden beneath the surface. AI transforms tasks to work that has already been done. Vibe Kanban, Gastown, & Conductor are the first instantiations of this for software developers. They have jargon-laden descriptions like "multi-agent orchestrator" or "visualizer," but they are, at heart, simple & beautiful Kanban boards of done & dusted work.