Your test suite costs $10 per run: the hidden CI bill of PR maxers
zeeg · x · 2026-10-07
Developer zeeg jokes: what do you do when your test suite costs $10 to run, addressing the "PR maxers" who lean heavily on AI agents. It highlights how AI coding agents inflate CI and testing costs through sheer invocation volume.
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