The previous post covered the side project where muda's standard came from. The first pipeline muda ran on after that was an internal platform at work: an AWS CDK app with five Docker images, three ECS services, an AWS Batch compute environment and a small website. A dev
In September a dev deploy of one of my side projects took 29 minutes, and a deploy of a commit that changed nothing updated all 11 of its CloudFormation stacks and rebuilt both of its Docker images. The pipeline had been built the way I build most things now, one
The first consumer of my runner-set library — a CDK construct that runs GitHub Actions jobs on Lambda MicroVMs — was another of my own repos, and the migration was done by an AI agent. The Claude session that moved its nine CI jobs onto the runners filed a field report,
A deploy in one of my CDK projects passed every gate I have — CI, cdk synth, code review — and merged. The CloudFormation stack deployment to AWS failed with: InvalidRequest: Unzipped size must be smaller than 262144000 bytes 262,144,000 bytes is 250 MiB, AWS's hard limit on
Things move fast. I recently wrote about using the adversarial models with my feature-workflow plugin a few weeks ago — ripping out the internal self-review skill and replacing it with external reviewers. Different model, read-only, posting structured critiques on the PR. The core insight was that a different