Comment by xracy
3 hours ago
Maybe I'm alone in this, but as someone who is in tech, I don't know what CI is, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect it to have an expansion within the article the first time you use it...
AI is in the cultural zeitgeist, but you gotta expand most other things at least once.
So if you don't know what CI is, what does "I am someone in tech", mean? Marques Brownlee probably doesn't know CI is, but he's also in tech. Because if you by mean "I am in tech" that "I am a software engineer", and you don't know what CI is, then boy; I'd be worried for you.
CI is really only significant on the programming side of things. Networking, systems administration, hardware, etc often don’t have that workflow.
I see you have not discovered infrastructure-as-code (IaC). We have CI for our infra.
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sysadmins CI is hoping the machine still boots after an update. Unless you are lucky you got two identical machines to have a test env.
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I am a Site Reliability Engineer, I have been for close to a decade, and this is not as common an abbreviation as you think it is. Also, my entire job isn't in question because I didn't memorize shorthand for a term that I don't use in my day-to-day.
Really appreciate getting downvoted to hell for saying "We can't throw readers a simple bone?"
All I'm asking for is CI(Continuous Integration) in the first paragraph.
What do you think about this? https://claude.ai/share/54eef6b8-b702-4f3e-968c-b19184e951f4
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"AI is in the cultural zeitgeist"
Within the engineering tech sphere, CI/CD have also been terms that have been standard for at least a decade now.
You would probably be rejected from most interviews at the first stage if you didn't vaguely know what they mean at this point.
Linears entire product is tailored towards software engineers/engineers in general or people who work alongside engineers, so its not surprise their posts have a bit of assumed knowledge.
I know what a CD (Compact Disk) is.
(Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment, are fine if someone tells me what the letters literally stand for, but sorry for not being so tech-brained that I haven't memorized every possible TLA that's ever been used in tech).
CI -> Continuous Integration
Its best thought of as the testing systems that are run as part of pull request review / merge to main / build processes.
Thank you
Man, what a weird thing to complain about.
Most days I feel like I must be the dumbest person on HN. I don't understand what 80%+ of submissions are about. But if it sounds interesting, I'll dig into it a bit and learn a few things along the way.
I recommend making a habit of googling or asking AI about terms you run into. As someone who is in tech, you will hear tech jargon your whole career that will not be explained if it's considered standard terminology for the audience being spoken to. It is better to learn to educate yourself than expect others to go out of their way.
It's wild to me that people think asking for
"Continuous Integration (CI)"
in the first line of a paragraph of a long article is "going out of your way". It used to be the standard expectation for using shorthand.