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

@jacqueline "Reduce the number of countries" sounds ominous

@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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@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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I'm so sick of that "we need to move fast" mentallity. Why would we need that? What's the point? If anything I want (need!) a slower world.

@lumiworx also "Reduced operational footprint" makes it sound like "We'll fire people in less privileged countries that have fewer tech workers and double down on the ones where there are many people already"?

> We’re reducing our country footprint because operating in nearly 60 countries does not allow us to give every team member a great experience. We anticipate reducing the number of countries by 30% focused on geos where we have only a handful of people or fewer.

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@jacqueline what i got from reading that article is that bill staples is to blame

@jacqueline

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.

@Natanox alternative way to help out: I'm not in a position to donate, but I am in a position to selfhost and use other Forgejo installations. I think people who are able to do this could help out in that way too, because it'd reduce the load on Codeberg and free up space for people who really need it?

(But yes, do donate if you can, in addition or otherwise)

@mcv @jacqueline @Codeberg

@gabrielmarkley the whole ChatGPT situation made me feel happy about my decision to switch to GitLab back when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft all those years ago

And now this is making me feel good about my decision to ditch GitLab, too, in favour of Codeberg, Disroot's Forgejo instance, and other Forgejo's around the world

Looks like I'm somehow always a step ahead of the game

@jacqueline @forgejo

@jacqueline i wonder what it is that makes everyone step on this AI rake.
even companies that go “we’re not going to fuck up the same way our competitors are” are fucking up the same way their competitors were.

@jacqueline my god. These consultants that are pushing every business over the same cliff need to be placed against the wall

@jacqueline

GitHub: Hold my beer!
GitLab: Hold GitHub's beer!
Codeberg: I've got a couple of extra beers.

@jacqueline Holy shit. The crash is gonna be sooooo brutal for these folks. Imagine an engineer interviewing at a new aircraft company because he invented an auto-pilot that flew the airplane into the ground which put the previous company out of business.

@jacqueline "As the cost of producing software collapses, demand for it will expand."

So...now that there is allegedly a magic automatic widget making machine that anyone can use to make their own widgets...the widget business is looking up?

@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

@kalviter thank you for making me aware of 🫧 sometimes unicode emojis are good

@hsza@social.tudbut.de you're most welcome, i ardently believe in causing chaos with them

@lunarloony @jacqueline Reading between the lines: They're preparing to fire a lot of people and replace them with AI.

@jacqueline "one platform, one data model, one governance system"

Don't really like how that is phrased, TBH.

@jacqueline@chaos.social so glad I pretty much moved everything I care about to codeberg instead of gitlab. I was looking into switching stuff over to gitlab and decided to change how I handle git signing keys (I now use one key for all public-facing repos, so moving is easier) just in case exactly this happens. Shame that I can essentially trust noone with my own code anymore, AI has ruined both art and coding for me so much...