Coding agents pushed CI bill from $0 to $380/month — here's the fix that made it ~$0
janwilmake · x · 2026-10-02
Developer janwilmake reports that coding agents pushing 300 times a day and a 5x test-suite growth since August drove his GitHub CI bill from $0 to $380/month, heading toward $800 by October. His fix: drop CI on PRs entirely — devs build locally and deploy to staging, with full tests running only nightly and on release PRs. New bill: $0. A telling example of agent-era workflows being restructured under cost pressure.
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