rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
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@jacqueline so lemme get this right: GitHub is currently collapsing under the weight of slop (both the slop they themselves are shipping + all the repo's created in the slop factories) and the correct move from GitLab, the obvious main competitor, is to shoot themselves in the leg by doing the same thing and getting rid of people!?
My stupid simple mind cannot comprehend these levels of capitalistic brilliance.
@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.
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@jacqueline every day I look for new ways to be left behind
β@ansuz @jacqueline put that on stickers and shirts!
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
@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 infrastructureI 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"
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@jacqueline every day I look for new ways to be left behind
βI love me some Joy Of Missing Out. Big fan, been doing it all my life. Welcome aboard.
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
@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.
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
@jacqueline i ctrl-fβd βagenβ and the first hit was in the promo bar above the article
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
@jacqueline@chaos.social gonna start calling this graph shape the "stupid AIgent Coder Banks" or "Samwise, but Stockfoolish", can't decide which yet
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@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 infrastructureI 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"
@Igigog @jacqueline if only ...
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
@jacqueline bit late to the party, no? Do they have a burning desire to be the bag holder?
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
@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 ...
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
@jacqueline Just incredible.
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
corporations when they have to do nothing to stay alive:
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
Codeberg seems to be the place to be these days.
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@jacqueline every day I look for new ways to be left behind
β@ansuz @jacqueline
hardcore JOMO! yeah! Μ ΜΜ Μ Ν Μ Μ Μ -
rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
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!
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@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 infrastructureI 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"
@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.
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I love me some Joy Of Missing Out. Big fan, been doing it all my life. Welcome aboard.
@theeclecticdyslexic @ansuz @jacqueline hello friends
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
@jacqueline for a magical moment they created a few dollars of shareholder value
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
@jacqueline we could see it coming with their new ceo.
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rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
@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..
