“There were a handful of people probably managing a security review process or a launch process or a deployment process or, you know, sometimes reviews were a little slow and they got backed up. Well, now we just threw gas on the fire”

— Nicole Forsgren

Video moment · 2:14 · youtube.com

From “Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summit”, found 2026-10-14.

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Release steps such as picking candidate builds and cherry-picks were always manual and human-sized. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.