Automation
The guardrail is the feature
An agent that finds every reference to a feature flag and plans its removal is the easy half. The rule about which flags it is never allowed to propose removing is what makes it safe to leave running, and what let the job move to the person who actually wants it done.
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.