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by photobombastic 7mo ago
Fully understandable, it's an AI minefield out there! I wrote everything except the technical summary of what I'd updated, just so you know...Claude only helped me there to explain what had changed.
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by photobombastic 7mo ago
Good question, thanks. PipeStep is specifically for debugging CI pipelines, not general LLM/flow orchestration. The target user is someone staring at a failing GitHub Actions run who's tired of the commit-push-wait-read-logs cycle
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by photobombastic 7mo ago
Love this idea — just shipped it. PipeStep now records every step you run/skip/shell-into and saves a bash script on quit (pipestep-session-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.sh). Should be useful for reproducing debugging sessions and as a starting
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by photobombastic 7mo ago
Thank you so much! Huge bug. Action steps (uses:) were silently skipped, which meant any workflow relying on setup actions would just fail. This should be fixed in v0.1.3. Action steps now pause instead of auto-skipping, and PipeStep offers
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by photobombastic 7mo ago
I have been experiencing this as a (don't judge) full-time vibe coder without an engineering background. tmux helps a little. I'm leaning towards embracing YOLO mode (in CC) + writing very detailed specs. That way, the attention g
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by photobombastic 7mo ago
I'm going to assume you meant "would've" hah. Would love to know how I could improve it!
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Show HN: PipeStep – Step-through debugger for GitHub Actions workflows(github.com)
12 points by photobombastic 7mo ago|9 comments
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by photobombastic 7mo ago
I love this. Would be really valuable to add semantic search on signal type, not just quality. For example if I'm looking for someone who might be good to recruit for my team, or who is building a competitor, etc.
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by photobombastic 7mo ago
This is a real problem. I've heard similar stories from people running CI pipelines — a retry loop bug burns through your entire monthly Actions minutes budget in hours, and there's no built-in circuit breaker there either. The ap
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by photobombastic 7mo ago
The "context rot" framing is spot on. I've seen the same thing discussed a lot in CI/CD tooling circles — agents lose track of what's already been tried and start suggesting the same fixes in loops. Storing the reas
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by photobombastic 7mo ago
The core git hosting has been solid for me, but Actions has been noticeably flakier in recent months. More random runner timeouts, longer queue times for larger runners, and occasional runs that just silently hang. The frustrating part isn&
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by photobombastic 7mo ago
Building a step-through debugger for GitHub Actions workflows called PipeStep ( https://github.com/Photobombastic/pipestep ). The idea came from the commit-push-wait-read-logs cycle that everyone seems to accept as norma
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by photobombastic 7mo ago
very cool idea! in my experience most users don't want anything that requires more than 1 prompt (usually to their detriment), but you perhaps you can help them build a better prompt up front via multi-field input?