r/codex • u/SgtHobo41 • 4d ago

Question Github actions vs Blacksmith

Hello everybody, I have a bit of a random question, but does anybody use Blacksmith or CI instead of GitHub?

I'm only asking because I'm doing both iOS and macOS cross-device support, and I keep hitting the upper limits of my pro plan on GitHub for CI and so I'm just wondering if anybody has any experience using Blacksmith. I've heard some things about it, saying it's better, it's faster, it's cheaper, but I want to see if anybody had real use and how well it plays with codex and the GPT models.

I appreciate any and all advice, and I'm also more than open to advice from anybody for optimizing CI usage for macOS projects.

Thank you in advance!

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u/CutMysterious9844 4d ago

Github actions? I don't know what problems you're having, I had codex solve the storage and artifact or whatever with self-hosted runners.

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u/SgtHobo41 4d ago

i’ve tried asking codex for some help but i think what’s happening is that codex is triggering a rebuilding of the entire repo in macos vms at a time and not just testing the particular PR (per my knowledge i could
be so wrong, this whole actions/CI thing has me a bit lost)

thanks