no it is not, this whole thing being used in production and really reduces the time changes submitted and they are merged into master. and the master is almost always green, meaning developers can build and test any piece of code without problem.

They have designed this as a result of a need, not just a fancy project.

I can guarantee you that none of the ideas on the paper were born out of a desire to get promoted. They were invented because ML models helped figure out which set of builds we need to run more accurately at scale.

I still hope you got promoted though, you deserve it :)