The Spike Clock Is an Instrument

说明与用途

spike‑clock 脚本将每个阶段记录为 JSON 行，接近预算时发出警告，预算耗尽时停止编辑，提供透明的时间日志。

问题

A developer’s spike often ends without recording why it ran long, leading to untracked overruns and vague feelings of delay.

结果

The spike-clock script turns subjective time tracking into a reproducible log, enabling developers to see exactly when a spike exceeded its budget and to document the reason for overruns.

工作流

• 1. Create spike.yml with question, falsifier, budget, and artifacts. 2. Run ./spike-clock.sh start before writing the question. 3. Execute spike steps, calling ./spike-clock.sh step or probe as needed. 4. Run ./probe-cold-start.sh <URL> to collect three spaced hits. 5. Summarise CSV into a verdict and write to spike.yml. 6. Run ./spike-clock.sh verdict to log final outcome. 7. Review the generated JSONL log for budget compliance.

证据

A developer is ninety‑one minutes into a spike, and the original question … has quietly been replaced by a retry wrapper nobody asked for.

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The instrument is small on purpose. A heartbeat script appends one JSON line every time the operator starts a phase, finishes a step, or runs a probe, and it refuses to stay silent about the budget.

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The probe is where the clock earns its keep, because it converts a subjective impression of speed into three rows that either match the falsifier or do not.

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