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Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by pdntspa »

aleksiy123 wrote: post #77
Atotalnoob wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your best bet is to self host woodpecker CI. Hetzner has cheap VPS that I host my CI on. It costs like $10/month. Pick the cheapest region, since CI runners location doesn’t matter much.

Yeah, I did hertzner runner for a bit. But I think the issue is that my situation (solo dev, mono repo) is just not right for a dedicated instance. With only 1-2 runners, the pipeline is slow (low parallelism) and resource constrained. And at least 50% of the time its idle (I'm not working/sleeping). I guess what I'm really looking for is for some kind of aggressive autoscaling, and aggressive caching. I tried a coup…

> And at least 50% of the time its idle (I'm not working/sleeping).

So what? its $10 a month. Why do you need to chase 100% utilization?

And use can use that to host your website, a game server, maybe some other projects...

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by rschiavone »

simoesd wrote: post #23
paulddraper wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To the naysayers, I would point out that actions has not only one but TWO 9s of uptime. [1] [1] https://www.githubstatus.com/

Github has recently changed the way their status page tracks uptime in the name of "transparency"[0]. "Partial Outages" are now only worth 30% of their duration, and "Degraded Performance" is worth none, so their uptime values are now wildly inflated. [0] https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/bringing-more...

Of course they hide behind corporate speak like "Bringing more transparency".

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by deathanatos »

paulddraper wrote: post #16
1qaboutecs wrote: post #12

scary but thank goodness github actions is highly reliable, robust to change, and has a simple-to-understand ontology.

To the naysayers, I would point out that actions has not only one but TWO 9s of uptime. [1] [1] https://www.githubstatus.com/

Yesterday's ≈5h long incident with the Pull Requests page being blank is listed as 1h 47m.

My org noticed the incident at 12:19p ET, Github pushed their first update at 12:38p, and pushed that it was mitigated at 5:48p.

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by veidr »

This is funny, but Copilot is still an interesting case-study and (probably) failed predictor of where we are headed.

We all know, and have known for a long time, that the AI labs selling dollars for a nickel are going to pull that rug, and up that price, at some point.

Copilot, though, has been consistently the weakest mainstream AI coding offering. Inferior to Cursor or Windsurf at editor completions, inferior to Codex, Claude, OpenCode, blah blah blah, at agentic coding and also the old-school chat-style...

And now, it's no longer cheap AND now sucks even more than it has all along — the new $39/month plan is not only worse than all its competitors, but worse than its own $10 plan was a month ago — by a lot.

The thing is, you can't jack the price up unless you're good enough — at least on some axis, to some customer segment — to jack the price. And when you're not good enough, and you have vastly superior competitors who are not doing that yet... you're just forfeiting the game.

Which I agree, Copilot should do — it's the Windows Phone of AI coding assistants, after all — it still seems weird to me to just commit humiliating suicide rather that trying to make some deal with one of those superior competitors.

Instead of just jumping into a dumpster and lighting yourself on fire.

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by recursivegirth »

veidr wrote: post #115

This is funny, but Copilot is still an interesting case-study and (probably) failed predictor of where we are headed. We all know, and have known for a long time, that the AI labs selling dollars for a nickel are going to pull that rug, and up that price, at some point. Copilot, though, has been consistently the weakest mainstream AI coding offering. Inferior to Cursor or Windsurf at editor completions, inferior to C…

Microslop has lost their way from their ole acquisition investments and have instead hedged a bet on vibing their way into other industries.

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by spike021 »

nickjj wrote: post #88

They should also remove Copilot code reviews from being counted as metrics in a PR. I've seen some projects that use it and you open the PR page to be greeted by every PR having 3-20 comments but when you goto the actual PR, there's no one except the contributor with a bunch of Copilot feedback. It gives a false message that the PR is resonating with folks and has real activity. I wonder if GitHub did this on purpose…

Where I work that many comments could be taken as a bad thing: "i've seen too many comments finding issues or nitpicks with your PR, why aren't you doing a better job before submitting it for review??"

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by duxup »

breakpointalpha wrote: post #106
nickjj wrote: post #88

They should also remove Copilot code reviews from being counted as metrics in a PR. I've seen some projects that use it and you open the PR page to be greeted by every PR having 3-20 comments but when you goto the actual PR, there's no one except the contributor with a bunch of Copilot feedback. It gives a false message that the PR is resonating with folks and has real activity. I wonder if GitHub did this on purpose…

If I had a magic wand, I would enforce an internet-wide separation of human activity metrics from bots. I want to know how many real humans read my post, commented, shared etc. Clankers can keep their own counts.

Reddit is slowly dying for me for that reason. So many bot / bot like accounts that seem ... off / hidden histories. Trust level with any given comment or post now is reaching 0 fast.

It's a bummer because it's hitting a lot of users and even valid users who don't communicate good are getting hit hard too with skeptical responses.

Re: GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes

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Post by vjerancrnjak »

Github was already struggling with bazillions of throw-as-much-crap-on-the-wall software running in actions, and now the world is running throw-as-much-LLM-crap-on-the-wall computation, as unstoppable as the pre-LLM era. Turning compute into excrement as fast as the planet is filled with it. Excrement being "Github Copilot code review" in compute world, and no need to draw what it is in our real world.

Weird that Anthropic decided to build a Claude Code Routines toilet.

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