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

[andreas@mstdn.dk]

@jacqueline Oh fuck, you aren't kidding!

Role right-sizing: As we shift to a new strategy and way of working, powered by AI, we must revisit the size of staffing for each role to ensure we are optimizing for speed and customer outcomes. In some cases, AI can augment and accelerate what team members have been doing, in other places we need to expand certain roles to go faster. We do expect daily use of AI by every individual in the company and we are launching AI acceleration programs to support every role as part of our transformation.

[woof@fedi.aria.dog]

@jacqueline i ctrl-f’d “agen” and the first hit was in the promo bar above the article

[kalviter@hol.ogra.ph]

@jacqueline@chaos.social gonna start calling this graph shape the "stupid AIgent Coder Banks" or "Samwise, but Stockfoolish", can't decide which yet

[kgmadee2@mathstodon.xyz]

@Igigog @jacqueline if only ...

[kgmadee2@mathstodon.xyz]

@jacqueline bit late to the party, no? Do they have a burning desire to be the bag holder?

[heiglandreas@phpc.social]

@jacqueline Looks like I now finally need to migrate my stuff somewhere else....

Was on my list for some time anyhow, this is just the final drop ...

[virtualwolf@toot.virtualwolf.org]

@jacqueline Just incredible.

[libffi@chitter.xyz]

corporations when they have to do nothing to stay alive: wait a minute we could fuck up hard

[mcv@friendica.opensocial.space]

@jacqueline

Codeberg seems to be the place to be these days.

[bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org]

@ansuz @jacqueline
hardcore JOMO! yeah! ̅ ̆̅ ̅ ͜ ̅ ̅ ̅

[lumiworx@mastodon.social]

@jacqueline

Reading the meaty parts about how they'll 'operate going forward', and you get all you need to know in a few words...

"Our three new operating principles are:

Speed with Quality ... "

You never, ever get both. History is littered with companies that tried and failed.

"Ownership Mindset"

Really? Employees who own none of it should just act like they do, 'cause, ya know... Yeah, Team!

"Customer Outcomes"

They've already watched GitHub implode, so yeah, more of that, please!

[hermlon@yuustan.space]

@Igigog @jacqueline yeah sure. To me this reads like everyone who isn't fine with vibe coding is expected to leave the company with dignity now

We do expect daily use of AI by every individual in the company and we are launching AI acceleration programs to support every role as part of our transformation.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@theeclecticdyslexic @ansuz @jacqueline hello friends

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@jacqueline for a magical moment they created a few dollars of shareholder value

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@jacqueline we could see it coming with their new ceo.

[bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org]

@jacqueline
i&i love this sentence buried somewhere in the mail to employees:

"I want to be direct: I want to do this once, and do it right, and not revisit our structure anytime in the foreseeable future."

oh yeah. like, you think you're building the Parthenon or what? with AI chunks?
this joke makes my day.
the funniest/saddest is he must think his tone is one of "mitigation" someway.. oh my..

[millihertz@oldbytes.space]

@bituur_esztreym @jacqueline in fairness, this would be quite an achievement - most arsonists can't help but return to the scene of their crimes

[natanox@chaos.social]

@lunarloony @jacqueline Reading between the lines: They're preparing to fire a lot of people and replace them with AI.

[evalhaik@bonn.social]

@jacqueline so... I should migrate to codeberg?

[yetzt@social.yetzt.me]

@Skye @youam @jacqueline known in the industry as the firefox gambit.