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A team's CI pipeline takes 40 minutes. Everyone agrees that is annoying but tolerable, because engineers do other work while they wait. Why does the 40 minutes change what engineers do rather than only how long they wait?

A team reviews small changes carefully and approves large ones within minutes. Why does defect detection collapse as a change grows, and which single intervention recovers the most of it?

After a refactor replaced a list implementation with an immutable one, a nightly job starts failing with an unsupported-operation error on a line nobody has edited in two years. Every type matches and the compiler was happy. What broke, and what is the design fix?