kylegalbraith

Frankly, this sounds like a really fun time. Sometimes the simple things just hit harder.

This is really cool. Probably needs some physics tweaks as a short putt is almost always way to hard. But love the idea!

Yes, triggering Depot CI via the CLI is the sure fire way to avoid all dependencies on GitHub.

We’d need more details around what you’re seeing. It is true that if auth across GitHub is broken than we can’t copy your actions out to be used by Depot CI. However, we have a solution in the works for that as well.

In short, Depot CI, our own engine and control plane is not dependent on upstream actions control plane. But still has to listen for commit events to know if/when to run jobs on things like PRs. This to is being removed in the future.

Try Depot CI as well. Supports a GHA syntax but the entire control plane is ours with our own engine.

Having used the cowork version of this: scheduled automations. I have very little confidence in this from Anthropic. 90% of the time the automation never even runs.

Founder of Depot here. Thanks for sharing your experience!

I couldn’t agree more. It’s always felt odd to me that the entire performance of CI is pretty much pushed out of the primitives and requires an immense amount of custom bash scripts and the like. That kind of flexibility isn’t inherently bad. But there should be primitives that are fast by design baked into the system as well.

Parallel steps is one of those things that unlocks a lot when it’s baked into the system.

I agree on both fronts! BuildKit frontends are not very well known but can be very powerful if you know how they work and how BuildKit transforms them.

Thank you for the post! It’s well done and you captured a lot of the concepts in BuildKit in an easy to understand way. Not an easy thing to do at all.

Thank you for the very kind words and for your support. Depot is full of incredible people who love helping others. So while you might see me on a ticket from time to time, it’s really an entire team that is behind everything we do.