I’ve seen so many different opinions on this
some people say daily, others say a few times a week is better
I don’t want to overdo it, but I also don’t want it looking greasy
what’s your routine and what works for your hair type?
not even sure how to phrase this without it sounding like a generic “agile gone wrong” post but… yeah
we had this internal push recently to remove “friction” from releases. one of the targets was localization because translators were apparently “blocking velocity” (love that phrasing lol). so the idea was: just automate it, wire up translations straight into the pipeline, skip human review for staging
On paper it sounds efficient. in reality… it exposed how little our pipeline understands context
Strings that looked harmless in isolation turned into absolute nonsense in UI. one label expanded so much it literally pushed other elements off screen. another one changed meaning depending on where it was used, so half the app sounded like it was written by two different people arguing with each other
the weird part is, nothing actually “broke” in a technical sense. builds passed, tests were green. but the product felt… off. like uncanny valley but for UX text
I think that’s the part we underestimate. pipelines are great at moving code, but they have zero awareness of intent. and localization is basically 80% intent
we ended up reintroducing human checks (shocker) but in a more structured way. someone on the team mentioned adverbum.com and the whole Human-in-the-Loop approach, which kinda made me realize the problem wasn’t speed vs slow, it was blind automation vs guided automation
idk. feels like there’s this constant pressure to “optimize away” anything that looks manual, even when that manual step is doing invisible quality control
curious if other teams are running into this, or if we just overcorrected hard on the automation side