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 every day I look for new ways to be left behind
@ansuz @jacqueline
hardcore JOMO! yeah! ̅ ̆̅ ̅ ͜ ̅ ̅ ̅ -
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.
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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..@bituur_esztreym @jacqueline in fairness, this would be quite an achievement - most arsonists can't help but return to the scene of their crimes
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@jacqueline "Reduce the number of countries" sounds ominous
@lunarloony @jacqueline Reading between the lines: They're preparing to fire a lot of people and replace them with AI.
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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 so... I should migrate to codeberg?
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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 @youam @jacqueline known in the industry as the firefox gambit.
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Codeberg seems to be the place to be these days.
@mcv @jacqueline Please remember to donate, @Codeberg got to finance the upcoming exodus of actual developers to their platform somehow.
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@jacqueline@chaos.social gonna start calling this graph shape the "stupid AIgent Coder Banks" or "Samwise, but Stockfoolish", can't decide which yet
@kalviter @jacqueline idk how anyone can keep pretending its not a bubble when announcing more ai does this to your stock
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@mcv @jacqueline Please remember to donate, @Codeberg got to finance the upcoming exodus of actual developers to their platform somehow.
@Natanox @mcv @jacqueline @Codeberg but don't donate too much - we don't want them to be able to afford AI features
jk
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@jacqueline every day I look for new ways to be left behind
@ansuz @jacqueline It pains me how relatable that sentence is.
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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 8 layers of management is pure madness, but the reduction of that is probably the only positive thing I can read out of this thing...
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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 Who would have thought that the employee section is full of repetition as if... Markov chain generated 🫨 -
rip to gitlab, who have decided to destroy their entire business for no reason https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
Getting rid of git is amusing. Too much tracking, too many humans poking their nose in at what the agentic oroborus is doing.
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@jacqueline Who would have thought that the employee section is full of repetition as if... Markov chain generated 🫨@jacqueline also nice job getting rid of customers in non English countries with differing local conditions.
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@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.
@andreas @jacqueline What I truly lack in understanding is what are they all using? We used gen AI since the beginning and yes it can definitely boost productivity but more in a way you can bounce your ideas of someone that sometimes says something useful and if that is your thing you are definitely faster now. But I have yet to see something from agentic or vibe coding that beats a 1. semester if the goal is not just it does something and you have any standards.
