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Kind of disagree with this, which seems outdated given that it becomes easier and easier to implement best practices. Setting up CI/CD for a basic MVP is trivial, making it super easy to contribute makes iterations faster than just working on "product fit"

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You'd be surprised by how few people find "Set up CI/CD for a basic MVP" a trivial task.

More surprised than by how many people supposedly can't do FizzBuzz?

It should take what, fifteen minutes on a familiar stack and up to a day or maybe two on something very unfamiliar that needs lots of web searches?

"Should"? Or else what, they don't get the gold star you hand out every month to devs you consider "worthy"?

A dev can go an entire career never having needed to set up a CI/CD pipeline on their own.

When something becomes too easy, a more complex, expensive, brittle, slower, less flexible way of doing it will be invested.

Take GitHub Actions, for example.

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