The Shift - November Newsletter
AI coding agents are helping enterprises ship more software, faster. That speed raises a harder question. When an AI-assisted change breaks something in production, can you say who approved it, which controls it passed through, and how it got to customers?
In a recent article for NODE magazine, Loreli Cadapan, VP of Product at CloudBees, argues that accountability can’t just default up to the CTO. Regulatory reporting windows are getting shorter, so traceability and consistent enforcement have to be built into the delivery pipeline. They can’t be pieced together after an incident.
Here’s the gut check: if an auditor asked you today to reconstruct one AI-generated change, could you?
What shipped
CloudBees CI builds from Cursor Origin.
Jenkins and CloudBees CI now discover Cursor Origin repositories, build branches and pull requests, and report check results back to Origin. Agent-written code goes through the same pipelines you already trust. See how CloudBees CI builds from Cursor Origin.
One trusted count of your security risk, across every team.
The new Security Dashboard in CloudBees Unify rolls up issues across your org and child orgs, removes duplicates so one vulnerability isn’t counted 40 times, and shows SLA due dates. One click on Critical or High takes you to what needs fixing first. Explore the new Security Dashboard in CloudBees Unify.
Connect AI agents to CloudBees CI without handing out more secrets.
Developers now sign in to the MCP Router with the identity they already use, with no API tokens in config files. CloudBees Mask Secrets, now generally available, keeps runtime cloud credentials out of build logs. Learn about secure AI agent access and Mask Secrets.
Get more details on our latest releases in the CloudBees Unify changelog.
From the field
One of the main reasons we use CloudBees Feature Management is that it never stops our production. Even if the business isn’t ready to launch a feature, we can keep developing it, get it ready, and simply hide it until the time is right. When the business is ready, a product manager just goes into the tool, flips a switch, and it’s live in the app.”
Dishal ParmarEngineering Manager, Sainsbury
CloudBees brings scalable and reliable CI/CD, something that gives quality performance and standardization to the company. The app provides DevOps leaders with high visibility and governance controls, and this ensures every performance issue is fixed immediately. The app deploys heavy compliance measures, something that includes direct verification and supports audit risk.
Sonalina CoriglianoTwisterAdv
Worth your time
AI can make your engineering strategy wrong six months after you approve it. In this LeadDev article on engineering strategy, Robert Kimani uses CloudBees’ own State of Code Abundance survey data (AI now writes or assists with 61% of enterprise code, but 57% of leaders say reviewing, testing, and deploying is the real bottleneck) to show how faster coding can just move the bottleneck downstream, and he lays out a simple fix: track the assumptions behind each big bet and agree up front what would make you revisit it.
On the calendar
London CxO Summit
November 4. An in-person executive event built around pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings between senior technology leaders and solution providers.
London CxO Summit details
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
November 9 - 12, Salt Lake City. A conference for the maintainers, platform teams, AI infrastructure engineers, and end users solving the hardest production problems across Kubernetes, cloud native, and AI.
KubeCon North America details
Tech Show Paris
November 18 - 19. A conference for IT decision-makers who turn technological challenges into measurable business results. See us at Booth E60.
Tech Show Paris details
AWS re:Invent Las Vegas
November 30 - December 4. For teams building on AWS.
AWS re:Invent details
One question before you go
Where does AI-written code slow down most for your team: review, testing, or deploy? If any of those is a bottleneck, talk to a CloudBees expert.
