> in this scenario, hiring a build engineer to fix CI becomes a reasonable thing to do: there's money, it's not a hard problem, and makes everyone else happier

> in this scenario, hiring a build engineer to fix CI becomes a reasonable thing to do: there's money, it's not a hard problem, and makes everyone else happier & more productive. In my experience, not necessarily. After all, the company is already making money without CI engineer so the management doesn't have any incentive to recruit one. It's a stable situation but not really enjoyable one.