I'd hardly call any of them sane. There used to be debates about checking compilers into the VCS and now no one bats an eye when the entire build system is con

I'd hardly call any of them sane. There used to be debates about checking compilers into the VCS and now no one bats an eye when the entire build system is constantly churning underneath you. Today you have GitLab Runner 12.x. Next month it'll be 13.x. I imagine most other CI systems are similar, the hosted variants being especially bad because you can't even decide when to update. Modern CI feels like a shell script using a bunch of external APIs got tossed into a blender and poured into a YAML config. Then everyone claims builds are repeatable because they run in a container, but ignore the fact that if your Dockerfile has a single command that isn't working with exact versions for resources (apt-get anyone?) you can't rely on the build being repeatable between jobs in the same pipeline. A big problem I think we'll face in the future is there's no value in giving developers a product they can control. GitLab CI will evolve so you need a top tier plan to do anything interesting and they'll eventually own your build environment. GitHub will push things like Codespaces and they'll own your development environment. The idea that anyone would even touch GitHub Actions blows my mind. What happened to the developers that want to control their environments? Do you actually own your codebase if it's useless without a bunch of paid subscriptions you're using as part of your development workflow? What happens when your CI provider triples the price or shuts down entirely?