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Good!

I'd even welcome much more agressive limits than what they're proposing; the current culture regarding builds and CI in general is horrifyingly ineffficient, wasteful and in the end just plain slow.

I'm looking forward to developers adjusting their workflows (and caches, etc.) to actual, reasonable limits, not just perusing the service as if it were an unlimited cost-free cornucopia of software.

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I welcome the end of free beer culture, so I am quite alright with their change.

Everything is inefficient. There is a huge class of "developers" that don't understand what O(n) means, and a subset of them are vocally proud of it.

> the current culture regarding builds and CI in general is horrifyingly ineffficient

I used to be in charge of the website for a company you’ve heard of. We once realized some huge proportion of our traffic originated from a hosted CI company requesting the site thousands and thousands of times (guessing one for each build they hosted) every 5 minutes.

I can’t remember what proportion of traffic it was but I’m pretty sure it was a majority, maybe even more than 80%.

I sure hope the "cloud first" advocates are happy now, because they have managed to create masses of developers who have next to no idea that what they're doing is an incredible waste of resources. These are also the same people who are perplexed why their systems intermittently fail, or are surprised that they do when the Internet connection cuts out for a bit.

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