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How automated deployment creates new forms of helpless waiting

Every time I push code to production I have to wait twenty minutes for the CI/CD pipeline to finish and I refresh the build status page obsessively even though I know it will not go any faster.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Tools designed to eliminate human bottlenecks have created new spaces where human impatience meets immutable machine time.

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