[joseph_grobbles]

It's a variation of Parkinson's Law -- we just keep expanding what we are doing to fit the hardware available to us, then claiming that nothing has changed.

CI is a fairly new thing. The idea of constantly doing all that compute work again and again was unfathomable not that long ago for most teams. We layer on and load in loads of ancillary processes, checks, lints, and so on, because we have the headroom. And then we reminisce about the days when we did a bi-monthly build on a "build box", forgetting how minimalist it actually was.

[jebarker]

This is true, but there's still choice in how we expand and the default seems to be to do it as wastefully as possible.

[lazide]

As wastefully as we can get away with no?

Not the same thing.

[pbjtime]

It's what the economy rewards. Simple as that