AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
Earlier this year, I opened Linear to find that Tuomas, our CTO, had assigned an issue to me, titled “CI costs are high.” While I was at it, he also wanted me to make CI faster.Agents have made it exponentially faster to ship code, but validating those changes hasn’t quite kept up at the same rate. Every PR still has to pass through CI, so as development accelerates, CI becomes a bottleneck, driving up infrastructure costs and leaving developers and agents waiting longer for feedback.In our purs...
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