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AI Made Coding Faster. Our Delivery Pipeline Had to Catch Up.

A few days ago, I used roughly 30% of my weekly ChatGPT Pro allowance in a short stretch of work on a pull request. CI/CD problems kept the work stuck, and the PR was still unresolved. That was what pushed me to increase the number of CI jobs we could run at once. After the change, the allowance seemed to last longer. I wanted to understand how much of that improvement came from the extra slots.…

In recent weeks, the author found themselves using nearly a third of their ChatGPT Pro allowance on a single pull request, causing a block in their CI/CD process. This prompted the author to increase the number of CI jobs that could run simultaneously, leading to a significant improvement in their allowance's longevity. The source material indicates that the author's reading of the weekly limit is not a token count but rather an observation of the impact of the additional CI jobs on their allowance usage.

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