AI in the CI/CD loop: let the gates do the trusting
AI coding agents are good enough now that writing the code is no longer the bottleneck — trusting what gets shipped is. “It compiles” and “it looks right to the model” are not quality gates. If you let an agent merge and deploy on its own judgement, you’ve quietly replaced code review and testing with vibes. The fix isn’t to keep AI out of production. It’s to make it pass exactly the same gates a human would.
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Your IDP is the face of your organisation, not a scaffolding tool
Internal Developer Platforms — Backstage being the obvious one — usually get sold on bootstrapping: click a template, scaffold a new service, get a repo with CI already wired up. That’s a nice party trick. It’s also the least interesting thing an IDP does, because you scaffold a service maybe a handful of times a year.
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