{
  "id": 1259700,
  "title": "I have built the same pipeline five times. The fifth took 68 minutes.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/i-have-built-the-same-pipeline-five-times-the-fifth-took-68-minutes",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-16T11:22:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/upadhyayhari_/i-have-built-the-same-pipeline-five-times-the-fifth-took-68-minutes-eem"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On June 11, a program was written to locate contract manufacturers for a supplements brand launching in India. The finished report was completed at 1:55 PM, with most of the time spent arguing about scoring weights. Three days later, the goal shifted to marketing agencies, and the process was repeated, taking 68 minutes from 1:47 PM to 11:56 AM on June 23. This program was then used to find packaging and branding studios, which took 68 minutes from 10:48 AM to 11:56 AM. On August 14, a pipeline was created to identify potential companies that might buy from the studio. It went through 58 already-qualified companies, disqualifying 21, or 36%. The author published this number, but it was seen as an argument against building the pipeline. The author prefers a process that is measurably wrong 36% of the time over one that is unmeasurably wrong. The author automates their work to make reasoning legible and provable, as human work does not produce receipts unless forced to. Automated tasks allow for testing and fixing errors, while human work relies on memory and personal judgment. The author emphasizes the importance of automating the collection of data and not the conclusions drawn from it, as certain insights cannot be discovered through company data alone.",
  "summary": "On 11 June I wrote a program to find contract manufacturers for a supplements brand launching in India. The folder was created at 11:35 in the morning. There was a finished, scored report sitting in it at 13:55. Two hours and twenty minutes, most of which was me arguing with the scoring weights. Three days later I wanted marketing agencies instead of factories, so I copied the shape and repointed…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}