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AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

317 points · 408 comments · julian_digital

xracy · 1790021108 · focus · HN ↗
Maybe I'm alone in this, but as someone who is in tech, I don't know what CI is, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect it to have an expansion within the article the first time you use it...
AI is in the cultural zeitgeist, but you gotta expand most other things at least once.
1. handfuloflight · 1790021274 · focus · HN ↗
  So if you don't know what CI is, what does "I am someone in tech", mean? Marques Brownlee probably doesn't know CI is, but he's also in tech. Because if you by mean "I am in tech" that "I am a software engineer", and you don't know what CI is, then boy; I'd be worried for you.
  1. Retric · 1790021961 · focus · HN ↗
    CI is really only significant on the programming side of things. Networking, systems administration, hardware, etc often don’t have that workflow.
    Asmod4n · 1790022148 · focus · HN ↗
    sysadmins CI is hoping the machine still boots after an update. Unless you are lucky you got two identical machines to have a test env.
    to11mtm · 1790026075 · focus · HN ↗
    Also the case of 'learning that someone did updates directly on AWS console instead of terraform and losing 0.5 or more days cleaning up the resulting mess'
    esafak · 1790025437 · focus · HN ↗
    I see you have not discovered infrastructure-as-code (IaC). We have CI for our infra.
    Retric · 1790033265 · focus · HN ↗
    I’m familiar, the issue is IaC only works on a subset of system administration jobs.
    Maintaining systems in a tunnel boring machine is a very different than an internet startup.
  2. xracy · 1790030074 · focus · HN ↗
    I am a Site Reliability Engineer, I have been for close to a decade, and this is not as common an abbreviation as you think it is. Also, my entire job isn't in question because I didn't memorize shorthand for a term that I don't use in my day-to-day.
    Really appreciate getting downvoted to hell for saying "We can't throw readers a simple bone?"
    All I'm asking for is CI(Continuous Integration) in the first paragraph.
    handfuloflight · 1790030643 · focus · HN ↗
    What do you think about this? <a href="https://claude.ai/share/54eef6b8-b702-4f3e-968c-b19184e951f4" rel="nofollow">https://claude.ai/share/54eef6b8-b702-4f3e-968c-b19184e951f4
    xracy · 1790031637 · focus · HN ↗
    I didn't say I don't know what Continuous Integration was. I said I didn't know what "CI" stood for.
    Cannot stress enough, this is like, basic communication/writing that they teach in elementary school.
    But I'm so happy you're able to get off on your feelings of superiority that you always automatically know what those two letters stand for. I hope that translates to meaningful happiness and fulfillment in your life.
    handfuloflight · 1790032086 · focus · HN ↗
    If expecting more from others is what gives someone a sense of superiority, then what is that you're doing with your expectations?
    Next time, Google it or ask ChatGPT. That's what elementary kids do when they don't know something.
    bcrosby95 · 1790091060 · focus · HN ↗
    Will do. I took your advice and asked Claude what it thought and it said you're exhausting.
    handfuloflight · 1790094521 · focus · HN ↗
    You'll be ready for the third grade soon enough!
  3. flohofwoe · 1790059434 · focus · HN ↗
    I mean, "CI" is a complete misnomer. There is usually no "integration" happening while a CI pipeline runs, it's mostly just running a couple of tests.

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