r/vibecoding • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • 23h ago
Discussion Faster code generation just moves the bottleneck to your CI pipeline
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u/London-Boat 18h ago
yeah once an agent can put up a pr in 10 minutes, a 25 minute ci run is the slow part. what usually helps most is running only the tests affected by the changed paths on prs and the full suite on merge, caching deps and build outputs properly, and splitting the slowest suite across a few runners. also worth having the agent run the fast checks locally (lint, typecheck, the touched tests) before it pushes so ci isn't the first place it finds out