The Build Is Red. Now What? CI pipelines are supposed to catch problems early. And they do — sort of. The pipeline tells you something is wrong. What it almost never tells you is what your change broke and why . Instead, you get a wall of log output. Hundreds of lines from jobs you didn't write, covering steps you didn't touch. Somewhere in that noise is the actual error, and it's your job to find it. Industry surveys suggest development teams spend 25-30% of their time dealing with CI/CD issues. Research conducted in collaboration with Cambridge Judge Business School found that 26% of developer time is spent reproducing and fixing failing tests — roughly 620 million developer hours per year across the industry. That's not a rounding error. That's a quarter of your engineering capacity going to log archaeology. The Gap Between "Failed" and "Fixed" CI tooling has matured significantly. GitHub Actions and GitLab CI are flexible, well-integrated, and widely adopted.…