diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 05a5a0f73..3494e6a40 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -68,9 +68,8 @@ jobs:
           restore-keys: |
             ${{runner.os}}-go-
       - name: Test code
-        # LONG_WAIT_BEFORE_FAIL means that for a given test assertion, we'll wait longer before failing
         run: |
-          LONG_WAIT_BEFORE_FAIL=true go test pkg/integration/clients/*.go
+          go test pkg/integration/clients/*.go
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     env:
diff --git a/pkg/integration/components/assertion_helper.go b/pkg/integration/components/assertion_helper.go
index f7e435a1f..0529e8bec 100644
--- a/pkg/integration/components/assertion_helper.go
+++ b/pkg/integration/components/assertion_helper.go
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 package components
 
 import (
-	"os"
-	"time"
-
 	integrationTypes "github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pkg/integration/types"
 )
 
@@ -11,19 +8,6 @@ type assertionHelper struct {
 	gui integrationTypes.GuiDriver
 }
 
-// milliseconds we'll wait when an assertion fails.
-func retryWaitTimes() []int {
-	return []int{0}
-
-	if os.Getenv("LONG_WAIT_BEFORE_FAIL") == "true" {
-		// CI has limited hardware, may be throttled, runs tests in parallel, etc, so we
-		// give it more leeway compared to when we're running things locally.
-		return []int{0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 10, 20, 40, 100, 200, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000}
-	} else {
-		return []int{0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 10, 20, 40, 100, 200}
-	}
-}
-
 func (self *assertionHelper) matchString(matcher *TextMatcher, context string, getValue func() string) {
 	self.assertWithRetries(func() (bool, string) {
 		value := getValue()
@@ -31,19 +15,13 @@ func (self *assertionHelper) matchString(matcher *TextMatcher, context string, g
 	})
 }
 
+// We no longer assert with retries now that lazygit tells us when it's no longer
+// busy. But I'm keeping the function in case we want to re-introduce it later.
 func (self *assertionHelper) assertWithRetries(test func() (bool, string)) {
-	var message string
-	for _, waitTime := range retryWaitTimes() {
-		time.Sleep(time.Duration(waitTime) * time.Millisecond)
-
-		var ok bool
-		ok, message = test()
-		if ok {
-			return
-		}
+	ok, message := test()
+	if !ok {
+		self.fail(message)
 	}
-
-	self.fail(message)
 }
 
 func (self *assertionHelper) fail(message string) {