less of it. specifically.
Two unfortunately-named tools that do real work: a CI flake-reducer that re-runs the right tests instead of all of them, and a code-smell linter that catches actual problems and ignores the personal-taste ones.
- flake reducer. trains on your test history, re-runs only the suspects, fails the build only when warranted.
- linter, but pragmatic. ignores the bikeshed rules, catches the ones tied to actual incidents.
- no agent. no daemon. a single binary in CI, that's it. take it out as easily as you put it in.