# Affirm Gave Every Engineer an AI Coder. The CI Pipeline Couldnt Keep Up.

- slug: affirm-gave-every-engineer-an-ai-coder-the-ci-pipeline-couldnt-keep-up
- date: 2026-04-24
- category: Agentics

Affirm spent $200k on AI coding tools in one week. What actually cost them: rebuilding the testing infrastructure and retraining human reviewers to handle code arriving at machine speed.

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