I set up my first CI pipeline today. It failed on the first real run — not because of a typo, but because the pipeline wasn't actually testing what my app needed. Figuring out why turned into a short debugging exercise that was more useful than if everything had just passed. What CI/CD actually means The idea is simple: instead of manually checking "does this still work?" every time you push code, you let a server do it automatically. CI (Continuous Integration) is that aut...