Pattern: Release Engineering Emerges as Post-Vibe-Coding Bottleneck — 'Creation at Machine Speed, Release Does Not'

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Paddo.dev's May 6 analysis 'Agents Merge. Someone Still Has to Ship' crystallizes a pattern visible across multiple signals: with agent-authored GitHub PRs surging to 17M in six months and AI coding tools making creation near-instant, release engineering (testing, staging, deployment, monitoring) is the new constraint. James Shore's inverse-maintenance formula supports this from the cost side. The implication for builders: invest in CI/CD automation, deployment tooling, and maintenance-reducing patterns — not just faster code generation.