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Figure 25.5: The ambient watcher

The ambient watcher.
Figure 25.5 The ambient watcher. Nothing prompts it; it reads an event stream and lets almost everything flow past unremarked. Only when one event is worth acting on does it surface—lifting that event (in accent) out of the stream and turning it into a proposed action that lands in a person's tray to approve, reject, or edit. The economy of the pattern is in how much it ignores.