"#GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team"

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/

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Things that seem small but accumulate. Each one is survivable. Together they form a compelling case for simply walking into the sea. The sea does not have YAML. The sea does not require a GITHUB_TOKEN.
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I wonder if the author ever experienced #Azure over GitHub. Yes, they managed to make something worse. Much worse.

Disclaimer: I've stopped reading after the first part (which was funny), once it became a sales pitch for BuildKite.

GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team - Ian Duncan

Why GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience.

Ian Duncan
@mgorny Everyone hated Jenkins, then GitHub Actions came along and at least we didn't have to run the server, and then everyone made the same design mistakes they made under Jenkins, resulting in something even worse. Great article - thanks for the link!