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CI/CD pipelines have become slow bottlenecks blocking developer productivity

CI/CD pipelines that were designed to streamline development have ironically become large, complex, and slow. Developers frequently wait for builds, tests, and deployments to complete, with unnecessary processes consuming significant time. In one example, Slack's E2E pipeline spent 5 minutes building frontend code even when no frontend changes were made, wasting time across hundreds of daily PRs.

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Inconsistent file handling and path conventions across build tools and tasks

Build tools and CI pipeline tasks have inconsistent behaviors around file paths, working directories, wildcard support (glob vs. regex), and directory inclusion in archives. This inconsistency makes it difficult to configure pipelines correctly and predict tool behavior.

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