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

[ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog]

@jacqueline I understand that this isn't for everyone, but it's amazing how many problems I've managed to avoid by simply pushing my code to manually configured git remotes over ssh.

[jacqueline@chaos.social]

@ansuz doesn't sound like you're ready for the agentic future!

[ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog]

@jacqueline every day I look for new ways to be left behind ​

[towo@chaos.social]

@Skye @jacqueline They're either oblivious or are trying to extract as much value before the masses notice that they're more and guillotines are easy to make. It's a general societal phenomenon right now.

[tante@tldr.nettime.org]

@ansuz @jacqueline put that on stickers and shirts!

[igigog@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@jacqueline to be honest, if you throw out all the AI marketing speech away, it's not even that bad of a plan. They're:
1. 10x-ing their infrastructure
2. Keeping engineering teams small and end-to-end responsible
3. Adding new APIs to explore the codebase
4. Improving authentication infrastructure

I feel like there was an engineer behind that plan who was like, "yeah you can throw in agentic AI bullshit, but I'm building for humans"

[theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social]

@ansuz

I love me some Joy Of Missing Out. Big fan, been doing it all my life. Welcome aboard.

@jacqueline

[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