Dev rewrites 'Mr. Brightside' to complain about CI/CD hell

SIGKITTEN · x · 2026-08-29

A developer adapted The Killers' classic song 'Mr. Brightside' into 'Mr. Buildkite'. The lyrics vividly depict the pain of programmers in the Continuous Integration (CI) process: infinite polling, mocks everywhere, pedantry, and code that never ships despite all tests passing. It's a humorous poem that hits home for engineering workflows.

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