Agents have made CI the bottleneck. Faster pipelines are the wrong fix.
The New Stack 2 weeks ago 1
Coding agents massively increased CI job volume and test writing, exposing CI as a bottleneck and leading teams to speed up pipelines with techniques like test impact analysis. The September posts cite Anthropic’s CI job volume growing 25x in six months and Linear’s test suite nearly quadrupling since January. The proposed result is shifting verification earlier and into agents’ loops so changes are tested against the full system (with governed, multiplexed sandboxes) rather than only the repository, making CI a confirmation step instead of the first cross-service failure detector.