We Were the Bottleneck: What 3 Days of Data Taught Us About Our Own Automation
About this episode
We built an autonomous engineering pipeline. It felt slow, so we measured three days of our own usage instead of building more. The bottleneck surprised us.
Sam and Maya unpack We Were the Bottleneck: What 3 Days of Data Taught Us About Our Own Automation from the field notes, the argument, the numbers, and the practical moves, in a short, sharp conversation.
Chapters
- 0:03We were the bottleneck
- 0:49Don't trust your feelings
- 2:03Sixty percent wasted CI
- 3:13The rebase treadmill
- 4:19Human was the alarm
- 5:50Kill the treadmill
- 6:56Count re-work, find treadmill