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When the agent codes in seconds, CI becomes the slow neighbour

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Last week I caught myself doing something embarrassing. I asked an agent to scaffold a small handler, watched it return a tidy diff in roughly the time it takes to refill a glass of water, and then I sat there waiting on pull-request CI to tell me a brace was in the wrong place. The author of that code was faster than the reviewer of that code by two orders of magnitude, and the reviewer was a YAML file I had been quietly proud of. DevOps.com ran an opinion piece this week titled "AI Coding Agents Are Pulling CI Feedback Into the Inner Loop", and it named the thing I had been refusing to name.

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