How Boardy made CI 20x faster: PR waits drop from 40 minutes to 2
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-31
Boardy engineer Owen Gretzinger wrote up how the team cut CI wait times from up to 40 minutes per PR down to 2 — a 20x speedup — and invites readers to steal the approach. It matters more than ever because every PR they ship is written by coding agents, which push relentlessly and never get tired, so CI speed directly gates agent iteration. The article includes concrete, reusable optimization techniques.
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