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Dev team slashes PR wait times with tiered eval system

A software engineering team discovered that their merge queue, which runs a comprehensive evaluation suite, was causing significant delays despite the gate itself running efficiently. The issue stemmed from the utilization rate of the serial gate, where high arrival rates of pull requests (PRs) led to exponentially increasing wait times. By implementing a three-tiered evaluation system, the team reduced the average wait time and improved overall throughput. AI

IMPACT Optimizing CI/CD pipelines can accelerate AI model development and deployment cycles.

RANK_REASON The item discusses an infrastructure improvement for a software development workflow, not a core AI release or research.

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Dev team slashes PR wait times with tiered eval system

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Ethan Walker ·

    Our eval gate runs 22 minutes. The queue behind it hit three hours.

    <p>Nobody complained about the gate. They complained about Tuesday.</p> <p>Our merge queue runs the full eval suite before anything lands: 1,400 cases, about 240 of them scored by an LLM judge, the rest deterministic. Wall clock, 22 minutes. One PR at a time, because the suite pi…