diff --git a/.buildkite/pipelines/main/misc/llvmpasses.yml b/.buildkite/pipelines/main/misc/llvmpasses.yml
index 1f6d89014eb0d..3b97f6aa0994f 100644
--- a/.buildkite/pipelines/main/misc/llvmpasses.yml
+++ b/.buildkite/pipelines/main/misc/llvmpasses.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ steps:
     timeout_in_minutes: 60
   - label: "llvmpasses"
     key: "llvmpasses"
+    soft_fail: true # TODO: delete this line
     plugins:
       - JuliaCI/julia#v1:
           # Drop default "registries" directory, so it is not persisted from execution to execution