What's this about?
Linear optimised machines, test scheduling, linting, checkout and critical-path jobs because more agent-written pull requests made existing CI delays multiply.
What exactly is CI?
Continuous integration automatically builds and tests each change before merge. It is a factory inspection line: faster code generation only creates a queue if inspection capacity stays fixed.
What's the community saying?
HN 219 points, 226 comments at fetch time.
- Teams compare Bazel, faster third-party runners and duration-aware sharding.
- Some say human product testing, not CI, is already the real constraint.
- Faster CI can merely move the bottleneck to review, deployment or rollback.