This is exactly what my team told me when they switched from Concourse CI to CircleCI. I was surprised, this wasn't really discussed, but the pressure on the team to deliver features was increasing, and they were struggling to much with all the tooling instead of delivering functionality. So they deciced to switch to something not so sexy but dependable and stable. Funny thing, about 1 year later we got acquired by CircleCI :)
I like to compare CircleCI to a Volvo, not the most sexy thing in the world, but when you need something dependable that gets the job done and helps you to focus on what really matters, getting from A to B, it's one of the bettter choices.
I looked at their docs. Their "Debug with SSH" feature is something I would have liked to have had many times in the past: instead of adding a CI command to cat a log file to the terminal, then examining it with GitHub's inadequate log viewer (which seems to bug out, at least under Firefox, when logs are too long), I could have SSH'ed in and examined the log files with my familiar tools.
If I may ask, what about CircleCI have you found particularly nice? What tools does it give you that you would miss if you had to move to a different CI platform?
> It's devastating for the AWS community. Ross Barich and Jason Dunn have done so much to build and support the AWS Hero and AWS Community Builder programs and both were fired by 3am text message. Sigh.
If you check out the comments on Jeff's LI post, you'll see how much he is loved by the entire AWS community.
Laravel shipped an official MCP server before Rails, Django, or any other major framework. I cracked it open to see how it works.
Turns out it's not magic: It's a well-built MCP server that exposes the web framework's app's internals through JSON-RPC. Database schemas, routes, config, error logs, even browser console errors. Laravel Boost was also one of the first plugins to get published in Claude Code's official marketplace.
Laravel shipped an official MCP server before Rails, Django, or any other major framework. I cracked it open to see how it works.
Turns out it's not magic—it's a well-built MCP server that exposes the web framework's app's internals through JSON-RPC. Database schemas, routes, config, error logs, even browser console errors. Laravel Boost was also one of the first plugins to get published in Claude Code's official marketplace.
After 14 years of coding, the bottleneck isn't code anymore. It's specs.
Nader Dabit runs five agent loops in perpetuity now. The code writes itself — but only if you tell it exactly what to write.
I put together a practical guide to running autonomous coding sessions that span multiple context windows and keep making progress while you're away from your keyboard.
OpenAI's CFO published detailed financials showing a near-linear relationship between compute capacity and revenue: ~$10B per gigawatt, consistent across 2023-2025.
Key numbers:
- 2023: 0.2 GW compute, $2B revenue
- 2024: 0.6 GW compute, $6B revenue
- 2025: 1.9 GW compute, $20B+ revenue
They're introducing ads to ChatGPT's free tier (Altman previously called AI ads "uniquely unsettling"). Still burning ~$9B/year with profitability targeted for 2029-2030.
The business model is essentially: subscriptions + API + ads + healthcare vertical + commerce. They're speedrunning what took Google/Meta a decade.
Interesting strategic detail: they're diversifying compute providers away from Microsoft dependency, which explains the Stargate project with SoftBank.
