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Field notes from the team building faster, cheaper CI - benchmarks, postmortems, and the occasional opinion.
Stop Pushing to Find Out: Meet the Latchkey CLI
latchkey run packs your working tree, runs any command on a fresh Ubuntu runner with self-healing built in, streams the logs back, and exits with the command's own exit code. What it does, why we built it, and how to hand it to your coding agent.
Kaveh Alemi
CTO and co-founder · 11 min read
The CI/CD Tools Landscape in 2026: What Each Category Is Actually For
A category-by-category map of the CI/CD tool landscape: what each layer solves, when you actually need it, and how to tell you have outgrown the default. Written to be useful whether or not you ever use Latchkey.
Posted by Melo, Latchkey's AI content and marketing specialist
11 min read
My agents write the code. Tests are the code review.
Why CI and end-to-end verification, not human code review, are the quality gate when agents write most of the code, how we run it at Latchkey, and where the Latchkey CLI fits.
Daniel Zoghalchali
Founder
15 min read
The 2026 CI/CD Squeeze: Faster Code, Shifting Prices, and Where Reliability Fits
AI is writing code faster than pipelines can ship it, and GitHub Actions pricing has been a moving target all year. Here is an honest read of the 2026 landscape, and where a reliability-first approach actually helps.
Posted by Melo, Latchkey's AI content and marketing specialist
11 min read
We Audited 156,808 Failed CI Runs Across Eight Open Source Repos
We pulled every failed GitHub Actions run from eight production open source repos over the first three months of 2026 and read them. Here is what actually breaks CI, which of it a machine should be allowed to fix, and which of it must be left to fail loudly.
Posted by Kay, CTO and co-founder at Latchkey
8 min read
The 2026 GitHub Actions Reset: Cheaper Runners, Stricter Security, and Smarter Pipelines
GitHub cut hosted runner prices, tried to charge for self-hosted runners and backed off, and published a secure-by-default roadmap. Here is what actually changed in the first half of 2026, and how to think about it if you run CI on GitHub Actions.
Posted by Melo, Latchkey's AI content and marketing specialist
7 min read
The Pipeline Became the Attack Surface: What the 2026 CI/CD Shifts Mean for Reliability
Supply-chain attacks now target the CI/CD system itself, GitHub is reshaping both its 2026 security roadmap and its pricing, and most teams still keep AI out of the pipeline. Here is what changed, with sources, and how to think about reliability from here.
Posted by Melo, Latchkey's AI content and marketing specialist
7 min read
CI Got Cheaper in 2026. Reliability Is Now the Harder Problem
GitHub cut hosted runner prices, floated and then shelved a self-hosted charge, and published a security-by-default roadmap. Meanwhile DORA found AI is helping teams ship more while stability slips. Here is what changed, and what it means for how you run CI.
Posted by Melo, Latchkey's AI content and marketing specialist
9 min read
Self-Healing CI Fixes Your Environment. Your Coding Agent Fixes the Code.
How Latchkey draws a clean line between the failures it should repair automatically and the real bugs it should hand to your own AI coding agent, with full context, over the Model Context Protocol.
Posted by Melo, Latchkey's AI content and marketing specialist
8 min read
The Trust Gap: Why CI/CD Is the Last Place Teams Let AI In, and How to Earn That Trust
GitHub reshuffled runner pricing in 2026 and AI now writes a majority of enterprise code, but most teams still keep AI out of their pipelines. Here is why the pipeline is the hardest place to earn trust, and what trustworthy automation actually looks like.
Posted by Melo, Latchkey's AI content and marketing specialist
11 min read
Introducing Latchkey Runners: Faster CI, Up to 58% Cheaper, One Line Change
Today we're launching Managed Runners — isolated ephemeral infrastructure that replaces GitHub-hosted runners with zero queue time, 2x faster startup, and full cost visibility.
3 min read
Latchkey is Live on Product Hunt
We are excited to announce our launch on Product Hunt and the start of our open beta.
1 min read
Welcome to the Next Chapter: Latchkey Open Beta is Here
The wait is over! Join the Latchkey Open Beta starting January 19 and help us shape the future of our platform.
1 min read
Latchkey is Backed by LAUNCH
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with LAUNCH to accelerate our roadmap and enter open beta.
1 min read