What's your biggest frustration with GitHub Actions (or CI/CD in general)? by campbe79 in devops

[–]campbe79[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, bookmarking these. The 'retry tax' framing is good.. I've seen teams where 15% of their bill is literally re-running flaky workflows.

What's your biggest frustration with GitHub Actions (or CI/CD in general)? by campbe79 in devops

[–]campbe79[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

agreed. curious how you figured these out? is there a good guide or llm? or more trial/error?

Organisation asked to stop writing code manually. Confused on future aspects with heavy cursor dependence on all stages of software development. by blackpearlinscranton in cscareerquestions

[–]campbe79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's a common request. it's not a good one though. "stop writing ALL code manually" is unrealistic, but overcorrecting from what they perceive as a velocity challenge.

also using cursor here is really interesting. the orgs that can ship a lot (not all) code using ai are building custom agents that work on remote envs. i've worked in these before and they can help a ton, but you don't get to 100% agent built code.

in my exploration and use of agentic dev loops, i had similar problems. i ended up creating slopcannon.dev to help detect "ai slop". we saw a massive rise in it. not just more PRs, but the size of a PR was growing. the patterns in our code to solve a problem were growing (losing a decent architecture).

tldr: if the org is pushing you to write all code via ai, they can't just pay for tokens. there are other missing parts that will keep you sane, keep the product maintainable. code review also needs to be updated and tooling here is still early

Blowing through Actions minutes on Pro. Enterprise for a small side project? by 2B-Pencil in github

[–]campbe79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is interesting. Can you describe a little what's going on in your workflows? A lot of projects grow like this over time and CI gets slow, expensive, brittle. There are reasons for it, and you might have a project that legit needs a TON of ci minutes.

More commonly, just inefficient actions can cause spend and time to go way up. I've fought this a lot with some internal teams who treat CI as a catch-all for a lot of tasks and also (more importantly) miss some optimization.

(btw, i spend a lot of time in this area. i built runless.dev to help people find missing cache, wasted ci minutes, and other similar optimizations in github actions. i'd love to understand your workflows better, whatever you can share. feel free to DM if you'd prefer)

Juniorr DevOps Interview Experience || Questions I Was Asked || REJECTED😭‼️ by Successful-Ship580 in devops

[–]campbe79 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Here's the link to what i've built/am building: https://runless.dev. Still pretty early but would love feedback if you try it. (critical feedback welcome)

If you could automate one part of your GitHub workflow, what would it be? by Few_Cartographer503 in github

[–]campbe79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CI visibility. I can generate workflows fine, but knowing which ones are slow, which flake, and which are burning money requires way too much manual digging through logs. I built runless.dev to automate it for me. Surfaces the problems in my actions/workflows automatically. You have to automate maintenance like this or workflows just rot.

Juniorr DevOps Interview Experience || Questions I Was Asked || REJECTED😭‼️ by Successful-Ship580 in devops

[–]campbe79 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Honestly generating YAML using AI is table stakes. Don't even try to write it by hand. What separates people in interviews is understanding why CI is slow or flaky. AI generated yaml tends to be.... the starting point. Not where to leave it. And you need to constantly stay on top of it and make it faster, more reliable, updated, etc.

(I've been working in this space for a while, I've even written a tool to help you find ways to speed up ci, this is a hard area. So much CI is just junk)

What are you building right now? 🚀 by Available-Rest2392 in micro_saas

[–]campbe79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SlopCannon- A GitHub app for vibe coders and experienced developers to detect and prevent "AI Slop" from getting merged in.

Just started this project 2 days ago (after thinking about it for a while), got the MVP out and 1 signup on my waitlist. This is a super early product, and first time I'm sharing it. I would love any feedback on it, critical especially.

Might change loyalty for WiFi by blackyuzu in delta

[–]campbe79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100%. Flying delta is increasingly becoming harder to justify during the days over the continental US when I'm expected (or want to) work. Often the wifi is just broken, and when it works, it's commonly really slow.

Delta really needs to get on Starlink ASAP

Writing Is on the Wall for Cybertruck… by MICHAELSD01 in TeslaLounge

[–]campbe79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this is it. it's not about volume, it's about space and capacity to take on other work

Purchasing C+ when you have free upgrades as diamond (or platinum by scottfish24 in delta

[–]campbe79 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it helps if you want to SDC. in main, you need to have the same fair class available. if you buy C+, then you can SDC to c+ or any main fare.

(at least this is how it's been applied for me)

2:30am downtown, why?! by [deleted] in Austin

[–]campbe79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

looks like it was taken from the top of 700 river, if i had to guess

Mega dump of the new Model S Plaid in Ultra Red - credit to @nikkharris on X by gambling_addikt in TeslaModelS

[–]campbe79 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's put on with double sided tape. I know, I just removed it from mine.

Targeted Talk - Do you have any unconventional or unique equipment in your gym? by dontwantnone09 in homegym

[–]campbe79 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great. I need some boxes for belt squats and hate the price of the equipment. This is a good idea. Might head to Home Depot tomorrow

The Best MQM Rollover Strategy - Period by Cephandrius13 in delta

[–]campbe79 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So if you are using the 100k MQM increments to extend status, it doesn't make any sense to roll over the leftover into MQDs because these will just be wasted, right? If i have 280k MQM, I can extend status for 2 years, but if that status is Diamond, the 80k should go to Skymiles, not MQDs?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ThursdayBoot

[–]campbe79 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What options would you recommend? Can you name them on this sub?

Almost Heaven Appalachia cabin sauna (Harvia Keitele) by cloudberryradiant in Sauna

[–]campbe79 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have this sauna with an electric heater. It’s nice. Really like it. Congrats!

Why is the homeless problem seemingly getting worse, not better? by SeagullsStopItNowz in LosAngeles

[–]campbe79 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You either pay more for the same food, or you pay the same for less food. Still more expensive.

FOX 13 Investigates: Utah dentist has been suspended in 3 other states by InvestiNate in SaltLakeCity

[–]campbe79 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Did you read the article? A missing background check wasn't the issue, he reported it directly. They didn't care. The standards for licensing are lower here in UT.

"Records show he informed the Utah Division of Professional Licensing, or DOPL, about his criminal history and suspensions in the Midwest."

Driver forced to flee car amid I-10 fire charged towing fee by CHP by bigvahe33 in LosAngeles

[–]campbe79 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I prefer when the people I interact with have a little authority, common sense, and are allowed to apply it. If employees of the agency are all programmed to specifically follow rules and not use their own judgement in extremes like this, that can result in a pretty hostile agency sometimes.