Pick an option on each card and press Done; your answer goes straight
back to the session. The raiser's pick is marked. "I'm not sure" and "Take it to the engineering bridge" are real answers.
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In plain terms. Should the cost-alarm GIF go away now that spending alarms will be rare? Every spending alarm posts a second message right after it, a GIF Gera picked. Fede said tonight that the spending channel has too many messages. After the fix now merging, an alarm fires only when the whole account goes over its daily limit, so about once a day at most. Keeping the GIF means one extra message per real alarm; dropping it means alarms are one message each.
The full question, as raised
post_budget_alarm and the floor alarm both call _post_alarm_gif(), a separate slack.post_message carrying only an image block (split out so an unfetchable image cannot fail the alarm text). With #956 the AWS budget alarm judges only the whole-account daily guardrail, so the alarm volume drops to about one page per breached day. Fede's directive 2026-10-12: #spending too noisy, too many messages.
Why, and what was tried
The session raising this recommends: Drop the GIF, alarms are one message Fede's complaint was message count; the GIF is a whole extra message per alarm and carries no information. Tried first, unsuccessfully: Read the alarm code: the GIF is its own Slack post by design, so it cannot be folded into the alarm message without reopening the risk that a bad image kills the alarm. The test comment says Gera chose it, so Smith will not drop it on Fede's word alone.