“Two workers polling within the same window can both observe the same ready bead, both claim it, and both begin work. Result: duplicated work, near-identical PRs, wasted compute.”
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From “bd ready --claim is not atomic — two workers can claim the same bead concurrently”, found 2026-10-14.
Reported from an overnight Gas Town convoy, and closed the same day. A closed issue doesn't show that every variant of the race is gone.