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Now it's smartphones and devices, but in the past it was work. Personally I think these days kids get a lot more attention from their parents than anytime in the past. Even so much…

This little line from the article scares me: "but a software engineer would iron out the remaining potential bugs that I could not find quickly" Every sw dev knows this is a very d…

Phew, was this a test? ;P Tnx for checking, and reconfirming!

Hi HN! My name is Olaf, I work at CircleCI as a technology advisor in the CTO office, came in through the acquisition of my company Vamp.io (progressive delivery for microservices …

This is exactly the reason why I like to work with local models on a regular specced machine. The fact that the agent moves slower allows me to stay in the loop much better, compar…

An LLM should not "generate specs", a human should. The LLM can work from the specs. It can never infer meaning from a vague prompt. If so, it will start guessing. Every human that…

Gitea might be an option also.

Out of interest: what does "better AI integration" mean? Any specific functional or non-functional requirements?

Out of interest: what VCS where you using with CircleCI? (as CircleCI is VCS agnostic)

Correction: Gitlab is not Dutch. It has a Dutch co-founder, and was a B.V. for about one year before moving to the US and become an Inc. The original founder is from Ukraine.

Let engineers do Vibe-accounting because, AI.

Debug with SSH(1) is still one of our (CircleCI) most loved and praised features. I really believe that these little QoL features can make a world of difference for sw developers a…

This is exactly what my team told me when they switched from Concourse CI to CircleCI. I was surprised, this wasn't really discussed, but the pressure on the team to deliver featur…

I think we (CircleCI) are doing quite well: https://status.circleci.com/

It’s open source right? You know what to do ;)

Almost nothing i assume. NI really lost the plot several years ago when the original founders left the company. Crappy after-sales support, lack of product vision and corresponding…

We (CircleCI) are still there, and doing just fine :) Out of interest, what are you currently missing and what would those "essential" V2 features be? tnx for sharing your thoughts…

I'd like to point out that CircleCI is typically faster (and more consistent) than GH Actions, and also offers a free tier (with more free build credits for opensource projects: ht…

It's not obfuscated. The free plan gives you a max of 5 concurrent self-hosted runners. If you need more you can upgrade your plan: https://circleci.com/pricing/#comparison-table T…

Agreed that caching needs (and can be, and will be) improved.

CircleCI does only charge for self-hosted runners generated egress and/or artifact storage: "Any Network Egress to CircleCI will be charged. At this current time, this includes Cir…

This. There are plenty of good/better CICD solutions out there, but it's tricky to compete with "comes for free with our VCS". I guess it's clear now there is no such thing as a fr…

"That said, most teams don't self-host purely to save money" I think most do. Or at least the infrastructure/compute costs are not coming from their own dept budget anymore ;)

CircleCI made great steps the last few years, f.e. to better support proper DRY working, supporting OPA policies-as-code, VSCode extensions with "dry-run" options. For some example…

Thanks for clarifying, appreciate it! It's true we don't support all the events that Github exposes, but we believe we support the most common and useful ones. Also, this is not se…