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> but your release cadence implies low confidence and quality issues.

curious why would it imply that.

Why would a startup CTO choose to deploy a couple of times a week with a Claude script instead of implementing basic CI/CD? He makes it sound like he's running a clusterfuck and he isn't qualified for the job.

Aren't you assuming a bit much here? They have implemented CI/CD; their Claude script triggers the git branch part of the release flow, which is what in turn triggers the CI/CD pipeline—a completely normal thing to do, even in established teams (save for the Claude part).

The guy automated the toil away using AI. Not that I would feel confident automating away that part in particular, but it does neither speak badly of the code quality, nor his job qualifications.

Because there is more toil in writing a blog post about how you use AI to do a release, than there is in writing a script that makes the AI and the blog post unnecessary.

But then you wouldn't have something about using AI to blog about.

That’s an entirely different issue: people maintain a blog to improve their hireability, and that entails blogging about things that may not always be brilliant insights. It’s not this person's fault that that’s the state of tech hiring however. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Blogging is actually a good way for professionals to earn CEUs to maintain certifications.

Chances are, if you’re reading low-effort blog posts that are consistently in certain knowledge domains, they’re intending to apply for CEUs at renewal time.

Well looks like he had the last laugh on us: GitHub was down, so nobody with CI/CD GitHub Action deployment scripts could make a release unless they used AI or did it by hand!

https://www.githubstatus.com/

Update - Packages is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. May 26, 2025 - 08:39 UTC

Update - Copilot is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. May 26, 2025 - 08:26 UTC

Update - Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. May 26, 2025 - 08:25 UTC

Update - We are continuing to investigate degraded performance. May 26, 2025 - 07:53 UTC

Update - Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. May 26, 2025 - 07:35 UTC

Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for API Requests and Git Operations May 26, 2025 - 07:21 UTC

I had no idea people could earn Continuing Education Units for blogging, but it's true: https://www.comptia.org/continuing-education/choose/renewing...

It really depends on the product. Especially if 0-downtime deployment is not possible.

why not have CI?

But the questions was about the cadence and not the method.

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