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CI infrastructure is ripe for the vibing — so why don’t we? I have been.
Our company must deliver 200 interactive science and maths games for millions of students this year. Only a few years ago were we making 30, by hand, for significantly fewer students. Rather than handcrafting 200 interactive games though…what if we could make something do it for us? What if we could build a system that builds the system for us?
CI is the perfect place for all our guardrails and all of our systems to come hang out. Without the right grounding, without the right guardrails… the pipelines drop off a cliff. Without the right observability stack, you can’t see what’s going on when things do go wrong — or when things go right. And then…you can’t scale it.
So I vibed it all. And it delivered.
Ally Macdonald
Ally (or AIly, or (a)LL(y)M) is a software engineer who likes seeing large varieties of things Just Work™ — be it pressing a button and see data transform in front of her, or deleting code and seeing software get faster. She started at Stile Education in 2021, and after a short-lived venture into corporate software, she returned to work as an Staff Builder in AI Labs at Stile (now owned by Curriculum Associates). She loves pandas. And home data pipelines. And data hoarding. And lists whose entries are sentence fragments that begin with `And`. And deleting code. And being noncommittally opinionated.