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The E2E suite billed 1,130 minutes to test a page that never existed

A Playwright suite on a private repo ran 69 times in three weeks, failed 61 of them, and billed roughly a thousand minutes doing it. The root cause was three mistakes stacked on top of each other, and the deepest one was mine: I did not know GitHub Actions had a bill.

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