Agent coding at scale hits a CI bottleneck: dev built dsr after $5k/month GitHub Actions bill
doodlestein · x · 2026-09-29
- Developer doodlestein observes that builds and tests at scale are now the major bottleneck to high-throughput agent coding, a problem he hit last year running many agents on single projects.
- Using GitHub Actions for his open source work, his usage spiked to over $5,000/month in value before GitHub cut him off.
- He then built dsr, a self-hosted system that reuses GitHub Actions config files but runs on his own fleet of Linux, Mac, and Windows machines, and has used it since. It's open source and available to try.
- Takeaway: plan CI capacity early for parallel agents; self-hosting is a proven alternative.
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