Suds: AI code volume breaks traditional CI pipelines and raises costs
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Sudarshan "Suds" describes why he incubated a developer infrastructure startup focused on continuous integration bottlenecks created by AI-written code.
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“Now you have 50 X more code to ship the exact same feature. It's breaking all the Pipelines and like traditional ways of testing, merging, shipping code. And now you basically like drive up your CI costs, you drive up costs associated, and like the speed goes down a lot associated with like shipping code.”
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