Approval-gates Memes

So you want automation to save time and reduce manual work, but you also need Karen from accounting to click "approve" on every single deployment? Make it make sense. Poor Russel here is living the contradiction—building CI/CD pipelines that could run autonomously, only to have them blocked by a manual approval gate because management has trust issues. It's like buying a self-driving car but insisting on holding the steering wheel the entire time. The one-man IT department energy is strong with this one, and you can see the existential dread behind those glasses. He's automated himself into a corner where the robots wait for humans who don't understand what the robots do.