Reading up on Buildkite

The author replaced a nagging cron‑based Slack alert with a VM‑hosted bot that outputs a diff and one‑click CI queue, shifting from reminders to automated action.

Buildkite positions its CI platform as the fastest for AI workflows, highlighting massive parallelism, Reddit case study, and features like test engine and MCP integration.

GitHub backtracks on a per-minute platform fee for self-hosted Action runners after heavy backlash, while cutting hosted-runner prices by up to 39%.