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We’re heading to LDX3 by LeadDev London! 🇬🇧 If you’ll be there, catch Rob Zuber’s workshop on leading through uncertainty as AI reshapes how engineering teams operate. We’ll also be talking with engineering leaders about the growing gap between generating code fast and actually shipping it safely. See you soon!

A lot of teams are obsessing over token costs while ignoring the thing that's actually expensive: coordination. Chris Kelly from Augment Code joined Rob Zuber on the Confident Commit to talk about why throttling engineers once they hit a token limit misses the bigger picture entirely. If AI helps engineers ship faster with less coordination overhead, slowing them down over token budgets starts to look like optimizing the wrong thing. Full episode: https://circle.ci/4uuNWc8

An Oakland Soul jersey that tracks hydration, overheating, steps, timing, and distance run… built by a team of Oakland Unified School District students. 🤩 Having the privilege to witness the creativity, confidence, and pride these students brought to their projects has been the most rewarding part of our partnership with the Oakland Soul. Huge thanks to Rob Zuber for spending time with these kids, asking thoughtful questions, and helping encourage the next generation of engineers. More spotlights coming soon! 💚

We published a deep dive on Chunk CLI, and it solves something every team using AI coding agents runs into: the agent writes fast, but it doesn't know your team's standards. It works best in three steps: 1️⃣ `build-prompt` mines your actual PR review history and generates a code review prompt based on what your reviewers have historically flagged 2️⃣ `chunk init` wires that prompt into Claude Code as a commit gate so tests and lint run automatically before every commit 3️⃣ `chunk task` hands off systematic fixes to a CircleCI pipeline that validates, commits, and opens a PR without interrupting local dev

“This is a company that cares about representation.” -Joel Sierra At CircleCI, our ERGs are helping create spaces where people feel seen, supported, and connected. From cultural programming to volunteer initiatives to community partnerships, this work is driven by employees who care about building a more inclusive industry. 💚 Watch the full ERG roundtable: https://circle.ci/4d65hlw

GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket? The platform your team uses says more about how you ship than you might think. We broke down pipeline data across all three to see where the real differences show up. Swipe to learn more & then sign up for the next Confident Commit: https://circle.ci/49Hkqbl

Toronto, we'll see you next week at CTO Craft Con! 👋 Come find us at the CircleCI booth to talk about how to keep pipelines moving at AI speed without constant human effort to hold it together. And make sure you catch Rob Zuber discussing how to lead through market disruption, a topic every CTO navigating the current landscape can relate to. Join us: https://circle.ci/4u9pCMQ

Turns out Chunk exists outside the terminal too. You can now 3D print your own Chunk and keep it close for moral support when CI has other plans. Download files on Thingiverse: https://circle.ci/4cTPNkt

What an honor to be part of this year’s STEM Fair at the Coliseum! This year marked Oakland Unified School District’s biggest fair yet, and our wearable tech challenge leveled up in a huge way too. From returning competitors to a repeat winner, the ingenuity and imagination poured into these jerseys were so impressive. We’re incredibly grateful to work with the Oakland Soul and OUSD to continue creating spaces for students to build, experiment, and dream big. To all the students who participated: your work was amazing. We can't wait to see what you build next! 💚

Technical leaders and executives are reacting to the same changes through completely different lenses, and most orgs are still evaluating using frameworks built for a much slower world. That's where good ideas go to die. At LDX3 by LeadDev London this year, I'll be discussing how executives actually evaluate technical initiatives, what gains traction, what stalls out, and why. More importantly, I'll get into how engineering leaders can close that translation gap: connecting technical decisions to the business context they exist in, and framing experimentation as smart risk management rather than reckless change. See you there.