CI/CD is Shifting from Speed to Risk — AI Agents as Ephemeral Environment Managers

Robert Erez argues AI is shifting CI/CD's primary design axis from 'how fast can we ship' to 'how do we manage risk.' Ephemeral environments are replacing static staging — each PR gets its own environment, torn down on merge. AI agents are being used to manage environment lifecycle. 'Roll forward not backward' is replacing rollback as the standard failure response.