alt Hacker NewsI feel like non-professional vibe coders are scapegoated too often. I'm a professional software engineer with extensive experience in CI/CD pipelines. And I heap on 30x more stress on GitHub than I did before AI-powered development took over - because (1) I'm much more efficient and running many development tasks in parallel, and (2) CI runs are one of my tools for ensuring that quality doesn't degrade with velocity.
I think that even if you stripped out non-professional vibe coders from the equation - the problem is still there, and will keep compounding.
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Very fair point, and I'm absolutely in the same class. I suppose all I was pointing out was I wonder how many projects have CI that really don't need it but end up with it because AI added it without the user really understanding.
But yes, I also hammer GitHub a lot harder nowadays. I've had to move all of my private repos to self-hosted bare metal because I chew through 2k minutes in a few days.
Ive been spending a lot of time recently across all my projects optimizing ci because with this latest wave of models I can confidently make a lot more changes faster, and even if the pipelines are kinda optimized (I have rules like every pipeline fails if it exceeds 12 minute wall clock) the sheer amount of changes hitting ci is overloading it
+1, I'm definitely running _way_ more kinds of CI tests than I had before AI.