CI/CD has become a standard tool in every modern software developers day to day experience. We demand a lot from our CI/CD systems! and our software is all the better for it. But I think a lot of us have a slightly under-principled way of talking and thinking about it. Specifically I want to talk about how we tend to lump two very different types of tasks under the banner of "tests" or sometimes we don't even talk about one of these types of tasks but we still have them sitting in our pipelines and workflows and what have you.