“Always move fast. You never know who’s catching up!” — Terry Pratchett, Going Postal A bug doesn’t stop mattering just because you didn’t catch it in review. It keeps existing, quietly, until something breaks. At that point it doesn’t much care whether you skipped review because you were busy, because the PR seemed low-risk, or because you were shipping six pull requests a day and review felt theoretically important but practically impossible. ...
“The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.” — Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment At some point, CI/CD pipelines became the thing you’re supposed to have. Not because you’ve identified a specific problem they solve — just because they’re right. Professional. Proper. The kind of thing serious developers do. I’ve spent years building them. I know how to make them elegant: staged deployments, approval gates, environment promotion workflows, automated rollbacks triggered by failed health checks. There’s genuine craft in a well-designed pipeline. ...