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by duped 1222 days ago
The more time you spend debugging this and the worse job you do at it, the more money they make.
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While it sounds cynical... it doesn't strike me as 'wrong' entirely. It's a non-trivial problem, but until some service provides great tools to handle this, and makes the experience 10x better (to encourage more use/experimentation/etc), everyone will keep offering the same experience all around. If a service could automatically cut build times by, say, 70%, that's a lot of revenue they may lose from charging for the build time. They could raise the price, or hope that enough new people get onboard to make up the loss... ?
That feels counterintuitive to me. I would probably use even more CI minutes if they had higher value.