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CI is a team habit, not a server

Explain why Continuous Integration depends on frequent shared integration and fast automated feedback.

The move: treat CI as a shared integration rhythm, not a badge in the repo. A CI server can run after every pull request and the team can still fail at Continuous Integration. The core practice is frequent integration to a shared mainline, backed by automated checks that tell everyone whether the product is still buildable. The mechanism is simple and unforgiving. The longer a change lives away from main, the more assumptions it accumulates: old interfaces, stale dependencies, untested interactions, and decisions other people cannot see. Small integrations reduce the number of unknowns. Automated builds reduce the number of…

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