News•Mar 11, 2026
Judgment and Creativity Are All You Need.
Imprint transitioned from manual deployments and hand‑run database migrations to a fully automated continuous‑deployment pipeline within three months, leveraging Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and coding agents. The migration mirrors Uber’s 2014 service migration but swaps platform‑building for platform‑consumption, allowing a three‑engineer team to focus on design rather than implementation. Coding agents have eliminated time constraints and reduced attention overhead, shifting the primary bottleneck to human judgment. The author proposes a future ecosystem of expert‑level skill packages—"datapacks"—to augment judgment before creativity becomes the next limiting factor.
