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Winning in the AI Era: How Top Teams are Driving Their Velocity Gains with Alloy & Chime

While most teams struggle with the complexity of AI-generated code, Alloy and Chime have built internal cultures and processes that enable them to scale their development while maintaining quality. Join CircleCI’s CTO, Rob Zuber, in conversation with Maciej Makowski, Senior Software Developer at Chime, and Sunny Singh, Senior Software Engineer at Alloy, as they explore the dynamics that set their teams apart. They'll talk through the culture and delivery practices that actually moved the needle.

Deployment strategies: Types, trade-offs, and how to choose

A deployment strategy is the method a team uses to move new code into a production environment. It determines how traffic shifts between versions, how much risk each release represents, and how quickly the team can roll back when something breaks. The choice isn’t academic: a mismatch between strategy and system can mean downtime, failed rollouts, or hours of manual recovery.

What are test hooks in AI-native development?

Summary: A test hook connects a test or lint command to an event in your AI coding agent’s workflow. When the event fires, the agent runs the command automatically. If it fails, the agent’s action is blocked. You can wire your existing test commands into your agent’s lifecycle hooks to get deterministic local validation before code ever reaches CI. AI coding agents write code at a pace where stopping to manually run tests breaks your flow.