Donating money to charity every time a build fails: https://medium.com/football-whispers-engineering-and-data-sci/failed-builds-cost-more-than-just-time-4e7c196cc8bc
(Also a nice example of the @monzo API)
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That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
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Caching implies state that you don't mind losing. There's very little state I want to lose in version control!
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