Most teams don’t notice this day to day, as it usually shows up as waiting on feedback, context switching, and stalled momentum. But over time, it can turn into a real cost for engineering teams. Full breakdown: https://circle.ci/4cdyXwT

When a test passes and fails on the same SHA, that’s genuine flakiness. Here’s how teams can surface it quickly and cut down recovery time. Full demo: https://circle.ci/4oEksER

This isn’t about working faster. It’s about autonomous validation removing the friction that pulls engineers away from meaningful work. When delivery systems adapt to each change, that time adds up quickly. Learn more: https://circle.ci/4ag5H5U

When you look at CI throughput growth by team performance, a clear gap shows up. 🏆 Top 5% of teams increased throughput by 97% 🚀 Top 10% grew by 47% ⚖️ Median team grew 4% AI is increasing development activity, but the gains aren’t evenly spread. We dig into why here: https://circle.ci/49HdjQ7

Ever wonder where the time goes in CI? ⏳ Rob walks us through how small delays in feedback, failures, and reviews add up to real cost for engineering teams.

Average daily CI throughput is up 59% YOY across all projects, the largest jump we’ve ever seen. 😮 What’s less obvious is how uneven those gains are and why more activity doesn’t always translate into feeling faster or more effective. Read on: https://circle.ci/49HdjQ7

Teams expected AI-assisted coding to lighten the load, but what if it's actually making software delivery more unstable? ▶️ Watch the full session of AI is Breaking the SDLC here: https://circle.ci/3YiQgEx

Just because an AI approach works at Google doesn’t mean it’ll work everywhere else. The best place to start is talking to your team about what’s working (and what's not). Tune in for a look at what it’s like to build at AI speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXx52z2OukY

Ship Smarter Session: Connecting Cursor to CircleCI with MCP Learn how Cursor connects to CircleCI using MCP, end to end. Full tutorial: https://circle.ci/4b0Fhr0

No backlog, no tickets, no deadlines. What would your team build with a week to think? We asked speakers at @leaddev.com Berlin and the answers didn’t disappoint. 👀

AI-level commit volume is breaking pipelines that were built for predictable workloads. Even with fast builds, validation can’t keep up! Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWcJ8iXaKSo

Ship Smarter Session: Fork a repo and trigger a pipeline Here’s how CircleCI responds when a repository is forked, from fork to pipeline, end to end. Full tutorial: https://circle.ci/4b0Fhr0

AI agents aren’t just reviewing code anymore. They’re now contributing real changes to repos, and that activity continues to grow. Watch the full breakdown: https://circle.ci/3YiQgEx

You can’t solve AI-era delivery challenges by treating them as people problems, they’re systems problems. When ownership and feedback live at the system level, engineers feel safe to speak up and teams move faster. Tune into the full convo: https://youtu.be/dDu-sT11AvU

Sigstore’s Fulcio now recognizes CircleCI OIDC tokens! Sign containers and artifacts directly from your pipelines. No keys, no secrets, just verified provenance. Full walkthrough + example repo:

It’s the end of the year, and teams are asking the same question: Did AI really make delivery faster? In the latest Confident Commit, we unpack why the answer isn’t always yes, and how autonomous validation helps teams finally realize the ROI of AI-assisted development: https://circle.ci/4fPfRwo

The DevOps community runs on the work of engineers, maintainers, authors, and advocates who keep this industry moving. If a podcast, tool, or event made an impact on you this year, now’s your chance to recognize it! 💚 Vote now: https://circle.ci/4pjaz0c

What happens when AI ships code faster than your SDLC can handle? Our very own Michael Webster is tackling that question on stage at QCon AI New York, Dec 16–17! Join us:

AI is generating code faster than teams can review it, and massive PRs are slowing everything down. If the pipeline isn’t modernized, all that “AI speed” just gets stuck. Full breakdown here: https://circle.ci/4oEksER

AI doesn’t replace great developers, it amplifies them. As @lizthegrey.com and Justin share, teams that use AI effectively are increasing velocity and expanding headcount, not cutting it. Tune in for the full convo: https://circle.ci/491BGr6

AI makes coding faster. But shipping? Not so much. Even with a 60-minute PR-to-production pipeline, faster code generation didn’t move the needle. The real bottleneck is validation, not speed! Watch the breakdown: https://youtu.be/dDu-sT11AvU

This is Chunk. 👋 Our autonomous validation agent is now in open preview! Fixing flaky tests? Cleaning up tech debt? Speeding up builds? Perfect. Those are Chunk's favorite things to do. 😎 https://circleci.com/chunk/

We’re feeling extra thankful for everyone who stopped by our booths, talks, and meetups this month! And a huge shoutout to the folks on our team who spent November speaking, hosting, and showing up for the community. 💚

“If you’re selling velocity, you’d better be one of the fastest teams around.” In the latest ep of the Confident Commit, @fosterfriendship.bsky.social & Rob talk about what it takes to walk the walk on engineering velocity, and not just buy more tools. 🎧 https://circle.ci/48DDupd

Build agents that actually work together, not just call an API once. In this tutorial, we walk through how to: 🔍 Use CrewAI + Gemini to build a multi-agent “newsroom” 🧪 Write pytest checks to validate your agents 🔄 Automate everything with a CircleCI pipeline so you never ship broken crews

CircleCI is a finalist for the 2025 DevOps Dozen Awards! 🌟 We’ve spent this year helping teams ship with more confidence, meaning fewer flaky tests and more time to build. If CircleCI has supported you this year, we’d be grateful for your vote: https://circle.ci/4pjaz0c

We’re rolling in with a full squad to AWS re:Invent this year! Meet the engineers, execs, and field experts behind CircleCI at Booth #1451. We’ll be talking AI-native development, self-healing CI/CD, and what it takes to ship confidently on AWS in 2026. See you in Vegas. 👋

We’re at @qconferences.com 2025 next week! 👋 Come find the CircleCI team to talk pipelines, platform engineering, and how AI is changing software delivery. Join us: https://qconsf.com/

In town for #MSIgnite or #QConSF next week? Stop by to talk about something that’s on everyone’s mind: AI agents. Join us & Platform Engineering to discuss how teams are adapting their platforms to handle AI code securely & reliably. See you there! https://circle.ci/483eng5

Great engineers don’t just ship, they ask why! In the latest Confident Commit, Rob and Johnny Austin, VP of Engineering at Upwell, talk about hiring devs who challenge the backlog and focus on impact, not output. 🎧: https://circle.ci/49H7GBB

CDMX ✈️ NYC ✈️ Tokyo October consisted of hackathons, table talks, meetups, and so many great conversations around AI and CI/CD! Huge thanks to everyone who spent time with us and checked out Chunk in action. 🙌

👻 Happy Halloween! 🎃 We asked our team to share their own dev horror stories, and they didn’t disappoint. If you dare, swipe to relive tales of registry overwrites, lost backups, and one epic spam fail.

We’re collecting the spookiest stories from the dev community to help get everyone in the Halloween spirit! Here's @loderunner.bsky.social ⬇️

The 2025 DORA report is clear: AI amplifies what already exists. Solid systems get stronger, while broken ones break faster. Here’s how development teams are adapting:

New project, no ticket. 😎 With CircleCI’s Terraform provider, teams spin up projects automatically—complete with configs, secrets, and policies. Watch the full demo: https://circle.ci/4mVwY2g

The top 1% of AI builders in LATAM are coming together in CDMX 🇲🇽 Oct 21–22: Two days of missions, mentorship, and real-world AI challenges. CircleCI will be onsite with our CDMX team, see you there!

Bay Area friends! join us Oct 15 for Queer Latinx in Tech: Monthly Happy Hour at CircleCI HQ. 🌈 Come connect with LGBTQ+ and Latinx professionals, celebrate culture, and close out Hispanic Heritage Month together. RSVP:

Selective overrides = autonomy without risk CircleCI’s Platform Team Toolkit gives devs room to iterate while orgs stay compliant! Here’s how it works: https://circle.ci/4mVwY2g

Headed to @leaddev.com NYC? We’ll see you there! 🍎 We'll be on stage introducing Chunk, our new autonomous agent built to help teams ship AI-generated code with confidence. Catch our session & stop by our booth to learn more: https://circle.ci/4mGhv5K

CampAI w/ @auth0byokta.bsky.social brought hundreds of builders around one metaphorical fire. 🔥 We had so much fun watching founders and engineers connect over how to push software forward, together. Thanks to everyone who joined us!

Agents go beyond code generation. By combining reasoning with memory, control, and tool execution, they can adapt and act inside real systems. In CI/CD, that means fewer flaky tests, fewer blocked builds, and faster delivery. More in Confident Commit: https://circle.ci/4fPfRwo

Running tests on AI features looks just like any other suite! ✅❌ CircleCI’s MCP server brings deterministic testing to LLM-driven apps: https://circle.ci/4n2DhRE

You're shipping code faster with AI. Your CI/CD pipeline hasn't caught up. Chunk by CircleCI: your autonomous validation agent that fixes flaky tests, repairs builds, and optimizes performance while you sleep. Learn more: https://circle.ci/4ntkjUU

How do tech companies measure the impact of AI on software dev? Here's how GitHub, Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, Monzo, Atlassian, Adyen, Booking and Grammarly do it: More details on 9 other companies+trends in today's deepdive w @lauratacho.com at newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-tech-c...

Tired of updating 200+ configs for security scans? With centralized configs in CircleCI’s Platform Team Toolkit, one change propagates compliance across every project. ▶️ Demo: https://circle.ci/4mVwY2g

Testing AI features? In this demo, CircleCI’s MCP server finds prompts in your app and generates test suites automatically. ▶️ Full demo: https://circle.ci/4n2DhRE

Even with the perfect amount of information, the perfect amount of time, and all the resources, you’d still likely make wrong decisions. On the latest Confident Commit, Rob sits down with ‪@patkua.bsky.social‬ to talk about building resilient teams in the age of AI: https://youtu.be/HZ8JcBDynfk

Love this small-but-mighty update from @circleci.com: circleci.com/changelog/au...

Rigid standards or total chaos? Platform engineers no longer have to choose! CircleCI’s Platform Team Toolkit delivers scale, governance, and developer autonomy—all in one. See it in action: https://circle.ci/4mVwY2g

Is creativity just for artists or is it the hidden skill every engineer relies on daily? 🤔 On the latest Confident Commit, Rob sits down with @colabug.bsky.social to discuss practicing creativity & coaching frameworks that help teams actually grow. Tune in: circle.ci/3HHyndT