CI/CD
The automated system that tests and ships software every time a developer changes the code.
CI/CD stands for continuous integration and continuous delivery. In plain terms, it is the robot that watches a codebase: every time someone submits a change, it automatically builds the software, runs the tests, and if everything passes, pushes the result out to users. It replaces the old ritual of a nervous manual release every few months.
The reason it keeps appearing in AI news is that it is the natural place to plug in automated checks. A security scanner wired into CI/CD reviews every change before it ships, rather than auditing the whole codebase once a year. Same for AI code review tools: the pipeline is where they get to be useful without anyone remembering to run them.