Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it.

[eichi@mastodon.bierschutzpartei.de]

@rysiek There's a chance this is just some yapping about how great AI is to make investors happy.
But its best to remain cautious

[heluecht@pirati.ca]

@rysiek "right-sizing" is such an euphemistic way to say that people will be fired. This decision to move that way was surely not driven by the development department but by their investors.

I guess that this currently happens in a lot of companies. And I really can't see that this will go out well. This whole "The AI will save us multiple people" doesn't work. Sure, it speeds up things, but it increases the review time a lot. And when I understood that post in the right way, they even dream of letting humans completely out of the loop - and that will fail.

[tobiaspatton@cosocial.ca]

@rysiek loved this article. Very well thought out.

[nzjayzee@mastodon.nz]

@rysiek first you lock in your customers, then you lock in your investors...

[britter@chaos.social]

@rysiek time to move to frogejo ‍️

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@Eichi whatever it is, it is a huge red flag and does not deserve the benefit of the doubt.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@heluecht "right-sizing" is just a euphemism for "we, the management, fucked up long-term planning and over-hired; we are bad at our jobs, but since we are calling the shots, we are not the ones who will pay for them."

[fozzy@defcon.social]

@rysiek we will write own git repo mgr with rust and horses

[miclgael@hachyderm.io]

@rysiek grossssssssssssssss

[afterdark@shellsharks.social]

@britter @rysiek ️

"Frogjoe"

[rbphotographic@mastodon.world]

@rysiek looks like need to start looking for an alternative.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@rbphotographic I am probably going to replace my GitLab instance with Forgejo.

[danni_storm@hachyderm.io]

@rysiek ugh. I have been debating where I wanted to move to when I ditch GitHub for close to a year now. I got real hinky 'vibes' when I looked at GitLab's website last week and the entire homepage was a love letter to AI. Fuck that shit. Self hosed Forgego or Codeberg it is then.

[rbphotographic@mastodon.world]

@rysiek ill look into it.

[zimzat@mastodon.social]

@rysiek Which is in stark contrast to some developers commentary, elsewhere and on here, about *waves hands all over* the situation: "we'll just have to wait and see what happens"

Wait for what? I don't know how many times I've worked with folks and their default behavior is "We'll just have to let the bad thing keep happening and maybe management will realize the problem". It only gets worse.

If they have an audience/platform, clout, or money _they should be pushing people to unionize_.

[esi@merveilles.town]

@rysiek

/me packs his bags.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@zimzat yup.

[bird@birdbox.party]

@rysiek I didn't know that GitLab wanted people to use Forgejo so badly.

Now GitHub are probably going to do something similar, like try to find a way to sell Copilot more than they are already are

[angiebaby@mas.to]

@rysiek "Be sure to put 'customers' before 'investors' in the blurb, that will be mad funny"

[cauzation@mastodon.social]

@rysiek #TechBros gotta bunker down while peak stock markets and other assets, take the inevitable slide from greed #Capitalism.

Backup plans far enough away from these effects, is paramount - especially if you or yours can make a rudimentary difference, in a more #sustainable ecosystem.