Automation
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Codebase health is a lagging indicator
A tooling migration, some dependency bumps and a telemetry schema. None of it reaches a roadmap, and all of it decides whether a codebase is pleasant to work in three years from now.
From merged pull requests to a performance review
Merged pull requests already record what you did. Turning them into a work log with an LLM is easy; the hard part is the defensive rules that stop it corrupting the vault.
Release pipelines should be boring
Time spent fixing a flaky release pipeline sounds like a lot of infrastructure work. Here's why its effects on a team are easy to undercount.