24 DEC 2025
David decided: Turn off auto-prewarming of lecture notes candidates
David decided to disable the automatic background promotion of lecture note candidates into active generation, so that generation only happens when a user explicitly clicks a candidate.
Kerra's template distribution system would preemptively start generating lecture notes workspaces for users before they clicked anything — a feature designed to reduce wait time. David decided this was causing UX confusion and unexpected behaviour:
go study how the auto promotion of candidates into beign generated into actual lecture notes workspaces by the prewarming canvas dm distribution system works. i want to turn off that auto prewarming, for now, we'll enable it later again. but for now, only path to generating lecture notes workspaces should be the user clicking on a candidate
An investigation sub-agent was dispatched to trace template-distribution-service.js and lecture-generation-workspace-service.js in read-only mode to identify the exact flag or code path controlling the prewarming, before any changes were made.