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The context An interesting challenge to tackle in the CI world is how to keep up with dependencies. How to stay up to date when your product requires hundreds or thousands of packages, tools, SDKs, and sometimes services that rely on each other. On one hand you could decide to always use the tip (latest), which puts you at risk of a bad surprise on a random Tuesday morning if the new version of a dependency suddenly introduced a breaking change. On the other hand, you could pin all the updates, and hope to never forget to update them manually. ...

🇬🇧 Please note that this article was translated from French using Duck AI, a privacy-friendly AI. The idea of a potential Great Replacement by Artificial Intelligence (AI) is entirely absent from public debate, just one year before the French presidential elections. Political representatives engage in clientelism by blaming all of society’s ills (insecurity, debt burden) on different population groups (immigrants, the wealthy), regardless of where they stand on the political spectrum. The current ambition is short-termist and focused on the next electoral deadline, or even backward-looking as with the endless rehashing of yet another pension reform… Anything but than crafting a long-term societal plan and a vision for the future. ...