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๐Ÿ”ด Someone shipped a change that thought it was a feature but was actually a saboteur. They're frantically hitting ctrl+z and praying it sticks. The pipeline has left the building. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

โฐ May 01, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Buildkite service disruption

// Status page says

May 1 , 02:41 UTC Identified - We've identified a service change that is causing a service disruption. We are reverting this change.

๐Ÿ”— Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://www.buildkitestatus.com/incidents/8nd3cm8kqlnn

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