Sam Gutentag
CI Is Eating Your Momentum
CI pipelines were supposed to streamline development. Instead, they often interrupt it. Flaky tests, random timeouts, and transient dependency issues all show up just often enough to slow teams down without setting off alarms, or worse: getting totally ignored. The result? Repeated context switches, lost developer focus, and a creeping loss of velocity.
According to research from IDC and Microsoft, developers spend just 11-16% of their week writing code. The rest is devoured by surrounding tasks like debugging builds and managing CI/CD. Every test flake or unexplained failure adds friction, dragging engineers away from shipping features.
Predictable Problems Deserve Automated Solutions
Here’s the reality: most CI issues follow a pattern and AI agents thrive in this environment. Trunk's AI DevOps Agent is designed to resolve common issues before they hit your radar silently and flag less-than-common issues that emerge over time. Keeping your alerts novel, not noisy.
Consider these small but high-leverage automations:
Auto-retry known flaky jobs: Don't waste time clicking "Re-run job".
Explain CI failures in the PR: Let contributors fix faster with fewer back-and-forths.
Track job slowdowns: Find creeping inefficiencies before they balloon into blockers.
These aren’t just quality-of-life improvements. They cut hours of wasted effort each week across even modestly sized teams.
One Agent, Zero Distractions
Trunk's AI DevOps Agent is designed to run in the background. It doesn't replace your CI provider or require a new dashboard (though it does have one). It's triggered by CI failures, webhooks, or scheduled intervals, and acts without ceremony.
Trunk slots into your existing setup with minimal config and no new mental overhead. One integration with a persistent payoff.
From MVP to Team Buy-In
You’ve vibe-coded your way to a working product. Maybe you’re a solo builder inside a big org, or a small team sprinting toward market fit. The product works. Now comes the real test, proving it can scale cleanly and reliably.
Trunk’s AI DevOps Agent acts as an invisible force multiplier. It keeps pipelines stable, catches regressions before they spread, and helps ensure everyone builds in the same direction. Until there’s a full-time DevOps hire, this is the operational glue that keeps momentum high and distractions low.
Let the agent handle the maintenance, the retries, and the alerts. You stay focused on features, strategy, and building what’s next.
Join the waitlist to experience Trunk’s AI DevOps Agent and put your CI pipeline on autopilot. https://trunk.io/agent
