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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@lunarloony @jacqueline Reading between the lines: They're preparing to fire a lot of people and replace them with AI.
@Natanox @jacqueline Oh yeah, it just sounds like they're reducing the amount of countries in the world by 30%
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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 goddamn I’m glad I left working in tech. It’s a mess covered in AI slop and condescension
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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 GitHub is choking on slop, and also vomiting it. Atlassian is cancelling the on-premise versions of their software. GitLab could have just sat back and let the enterprise customers come to them. I liked GitLab.
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@lunarloony @jacqueline Reading between the lines: They're preparing to fire a lot of people and replace them with AI.
@Natanox I'm not even sure that's reading between the lines. It seems pretty clear from reading it that that is the intent.
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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 oh look, a RCE business plan!
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@jacqueline so... I should migrate to codeberg?
@evalhaik @jacqueline absolutely. Or the bots will open up PRs after PRs and call you out when you do not accept their PRs.
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@jacqueline What happened to git providers?
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@jacqueline every day I look for new ways to be left behind
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@jacquelines
removing up to three layers of management in some functions so leaders are closer to the work
but this doesn't read too bad! imagine an organisation where you can just remove three layers off the org chart .... -
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@jacquelines oh my ... the human in the loopHumans still own the judgment that matters most: architecture, deep understanding of the customer problem
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@jacqueline "We're rewiring internal processes with AI agents, automating the reviews, approvals, and handoffs..." Like yeah, you know, what could go wrong...
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@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.
@ansuz This is how I'm maintaining the "offsite copies" of my projects. It's so easy.
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@jacqueline run you own @forgejo https://forgejo.org/ its been amazing for my projects. Data is owned and stored in our control. Changes happen when we dicide to make changes. Runs smoothly provide plenty of the benefits needed. I think all these moves away from improving the foundational products and solving the core value proposition will just push more people back to owning there own infra. Its much much cheaper.
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@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.
@hermlon @jacqueline there will always be layoffs, whether it's "we decided we don't need you anymore" or "these pesky developers just don't understand the greatness of AI and decided to leave voluntarily". Sure layoffs bad and sure AI is easy to blame, but like, look behind the investor speech.
I'm not saying it's not madness, I'm just saying there is method to this madness, and if they will get to the other side, they will also get human-centric features out of it.
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@jacqueline byeeeeeeeee
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@kalviter @jacqueline idk how anyone can keep pretending its not a bubble when announcing more ai does this to your stock
@kalviter thank you for making me aware of 🫧 sometimes unicode emojis are good
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@Natanox I'm not even sure that's reading between the lines. It seems pretty clear from reading it that that is the intent.
@ami
Agreed, that's reading on the lines.
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@jacqueline Regardless of whether people are going to be *using* LLMs and agentic setups to write code, it still doesn’t follow that the infrastructure they use to do so should *also* be similarly disrupted.
I think the main problem is that boring infrastructure companies aren’t fashionable or exciting, so their top management will always have a tendency to want to turn them into something they’re not and shouldn’t be.
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@jacqueline "one platform, one data model, one governance system"
Don't really like how that is phrased, TBH.
