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esafakyesterday at 7:35 PM1 replyview on HN

Forgive me if this is tangential to the debate, but I am trying to understand Mendral's value proposition. Is it that you save users time in setting up observability for CI? Otherwise could you not simply use gh to fetch the logs, their observability system's API or MCP, and cross check both against the code? Or is there a machine learning system that analyzes these inputs beyond merely retrieving context for the LLM? Good luck!


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shad42yesterday at 8:08 PM

Mendral is replacing a human Platform Engineer. It debugs the CI logs, look at the commit associated, look at the implementation of the tests, etc... It then proposes fixes and takes care of opening a PR.

We wrote about how this works for PostHog: https://www.mendral.com/blog/ci-at-scale