Your builds suck: Fixing the CI bottleneck in the age of AI

Every platform team knows it: the delivery pipeline is the bottleneck. Builds are slow. Caches are cold. Engineers context-switch while CI churns.

The bottleneck isn't new. We just care more now. AI is multiplying the code hitting our pipelines, and the CI you tolerated last year is blocking your roadmap this year, whether you're at a high-growth startup or a 5,000-person org.

In this session, we'll trigger a real Depot CI workflow directly from VS Code, no commit required. Jobs start in seconds on high-performance runners, pull a container image accelerated by Depot Cache (10× faster), and run steps in parallel.

Three things to take away:

• API-driven CI for humans and agents. Trigger runs from your editor, a script, or an LLM. CI shouldn't require a git push to do work.
• Build and cache performance that actually keeps up. Faster runners, smarter caching, parallel execution by default.
• Drop-in compatibility with GitHub Actions. Copy .github to .depot and your pipelines run unchanged.
If your builds are slow and your developers are tired of waiting, this session is for you.