rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

[jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu]

@jacquelines

removing up to three layers of management in some functions so leaders are closer to the work

but this doesn't read too bad! imagine an organisation where you can just remove three layers off the org chart ....

[jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu]

@jacquelines oh my ... the human in the loop

Humans still own the judgment that matters most: architecture, deep understanding of the customer problem

the reverse centaur, the accountability sink

[david_bardos@mementomori.social]

@jacqueline "We're rewiring internal processes with AI agents, automating the reviews, approvals, and handoffs..." Like yeah, you know, what could go wrong...

[alxndr@tech.lgbt]

@ansuz This is how I'm maintaining the "offsite copies" of my projects. It's so easy.

@jacqueline

[gabrielmarkley@techhub.social]

@jacqueline run you own @forgejo https://forgejo.org/ its been amazing for my projects. Data is owned and stored in our control. Changes happen when we dicide to make changes. Runs smoothly provide plenty of the benefits needed. I think all these moves away from improving the foundational products and solving the core value proposition will just push more people back to owning there own infra. Its much much cheaper.

[igigog@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@hermlon @jacqueline there will always be layoffs, whether it's "we decided we don't need you anymore" or "these pesky developers just don't understand the greatness of AI and decided to leave voluntarily". Sure layoffs bad and sure AI is easy to blame, but like, look behind the investor speech.

I'm not saying it's not madness, I'm just saying there is method to this madness, and if they will get to the other side, they will also get human-centric features out of it.

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@jacqueline byeeeeeeeee

[hsza@social.tudbut.de]

@kalviter thank you for making me aware of 🫧 sometimes unicode emojis are good

[infrapink@mastodon.ie]

@ami
Agreed, that's reading on the lines.
@Natanox @lunarloony @jacqueline

[skington@glasgow.social]

@jacqueline Regardless of whether people are going to be *using* LLMs and agentic setups to write code, it still doesn’t follow that the infrastructure they use to do so should *also* be similarly disrupted.

I think the main problem is that boring infrastructure companies aren’t fashionable or exciting, so their top management will always have a tendency to want to turn them into something they’re not and shouldn’t be.

[alxndr@tech.lgbt]

@jacqueline "one platform, one data model, one governance system"

Don't really like how that is phrased, TBH.

[beldarak@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jacqueline

I'm so sick of that "we need to move fast" mentallity. Why would we need that? What's the point? If anything I want (need!) a slower world.

[beatpoet13@mastodon.social]

@Skye @jacqueline
the absurdity of assumed superiority prevents actual intelligent questioning to da point of being suicidal, that king of da moon scene in Gilliam's "adventures of baron munchausen" over & over & over again ...

[beatpoet13@mastodon.social]

@ansuz @jacqueline
equal lefts to all da rights, ... as long as there 's something left to live for, all be good ...

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@jacqueline Wow, thrown away their key differentiator!

[qgustavor@urusai.social]

@Igigog @jacqueline They sure will use AI for those changes, so, uptime and safety will suffer.

[badrihippo@fosstodon.org]

@lumiworx also "Reduced operational footprint" makes it sound like "We'll fire people in less privileged countries that have fewer tech workers and double down on the ones where there are many people already"?

> We’re reducing our country footprint because operating in nearly 60 countries does not allow us to give every team member a great experience. We anticipate reducing the number of countries by 30% focused on geos where we have only a handful of people or fewer.

@jacqueline

[badrihippo@fosstodon.org]

@jacqueline what i got from reading that article is that bill staples is to blame

[badrihippo@fosstodon.org]

@Natanox alternative way to help out: I'm not in a position to donate, but I am in a position to selfhost and use other Forgejo installations. I think people who are able to do this could help out in that way too, because it'd reduce the load on Codeberg and free up space for people who really need it?

(But yes, do donate if you can, in addition or otherwise)

@mcv @jacqueline @Codeberg

[hugoestr@functional.cafe]

@kalviter @jacqueline We are at that point in the investor game where investors are correctly ignoring the AI nonsense and recognizing a failing company doing layoffs to try to fix their numbers