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still not sure what the value add is here

Dev teams—especially in larger organizations—need to perform many repetitive tasks outside of code generation. Patched helps them create automation for those tasks in a way that can meet their specific needs around customization and privacy. Hope this clarifies? :)

What are some examples of those tasks? It’s difficult for me to tell what problems this is intended to solve

Sure here are some examples:

- Ensuring compliance with internal engineering standards/coding conventions. - Documentation for change management compliance. - Ensuring no critical/high vulnerabilities in code as flagged by scanners. - Updating tests to maintain code coverage. - Reviewing APM logs (like Sentry) to identify real bugs v/s false alarms.

Given a certain scale, each of these tasks become repetitive enough to warrant some degree of automation.

Tbh these sound like a few extra tasks to add to CI as standalone reusable steps. I wouldn't look at it from this description.

Also, do you know post code is British for zip code? I thought it was something to do with that.

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