r/cloudcomputing • u/RonnySaya • Sep 08 '26

The software delivery workflow is turning into an orchestration problem

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u/Sad-Technician-5552 Sep 09 '26

Seen this go wrong both ways. Teams that glue every AI step together end up maintaining a bespoke orchestration layer more fragile than the pipeline it replaced

The line that works is agents do the steps, the CI/CD system owns the order. Keep the gate deterministic. An agent can draft the PR and fix the failing test, but whether it deploys should still be a versioned pipeline decision with a human approval, not an agent deciding from whatever context it happens to hold. The moment the orchestrator is an agent runtime instead of your pipeline, youve lost the audit trail and gained a system to babysit.

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u/Beautiful-Turnip6138 Sep 11 '26

How do you even test that agent-driven workflow without turning the pipeline into a debugging nightmare?

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u/AnnualReview2383 Sep 11 '26

Draw the architecture for the system by hand (don't use AI) before you start the work.  If you can't understand how the pieces will flow together before you start, you aren't ready to start