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Ever work?
Disturbingly, yes
Every sufficiently complicated system is indistinguishable from being alive, and living beings need some warm-up time.
All the time. Causes include:
We call those "flaky tests" and only fail a build if a given test cannot pass after 2 retries. (We also flag the test runs for manual review)
I mean
maybe
Not with code, but i write a lot of LaTeX and that often starts working on second compilation