Closing the Validation Gap to Cut DevOps Costs
The State of Software Delivery report finds that only 70.8% of main‑branch builds succeed, a five‑year low, as AI‑generated code overwhelms traditional CI pipelines. Teams that shift validation into the developer‑agent inner loop catch failures early, reducing rework, compute waste, and reputational risk. Early validation narrows the gap between CI success and production reliability.