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GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Post by jaccola »

solid_fuel wrote: post #172
u_fucking_dork wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Calling it text autocomplete is played out and really just makes you look bad at this point.

It's literally text autocomplete. You can dress it up however you want but it takes input text and outputs the most likely next sequence.

“But they’ve added RL so…!!!”

You are obviously right and I see examples of it everywhere.

E.g I asked Claude opus 4.7 (the latest/greatest) the other day “is a Rimworld year 60 days?”. The reply (paraphrased) “No, a Rimworld year is 4 seasons each of 15 days which is 60 days total”.

Equally, it gets confused about what is a mod or vanilla since it is just predicting based on what it read on forums, which are clearly ambiguous enough (to a dumb text predictor).

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Post by sgarland »

semiquaver wrote: post #206
torben-friis wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a 'github down' post here every other day. The ball is right there, bouncing alone in front of the goal, and they just have to position themselves as "we're the stable ones" to score that market when the exodus inevitably happens. Nope, full throttle and stimulants, just because.

GitLab was never going to be the ones to take the mantle GitHub left on the ground. They’re a “clone” company and have very few original ideas of their own.

They did it better. I’ve never met anyone who has used both GitLab CI and GitHub Actions and thought they were remotely equivalent.

Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #244
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #242

How many people are at GitHub these days? I interviewed there just less than a decade ago and they REALLY did not like me. I kept yammering on about ensuring your KPIs are correct and making sure people felt psychologically safe. I think this was just after they were nabbed my MSFT and it felt like they were panicking, trying to figure out what would become of them now that they had been swallowed by a whale. I've do…

How do you think the GitLab employees felt about it?

I obviously picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

smhaziq wrote: post #248
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #242

How many people are at GitHub these days? I interviewed there just less than a decade ago and they REALLY did not like me. I kept yammering on about ensuring your KPIs are correct and making sure people felt psychologically safe. I think this was just after they were nabbed my MSFT and it felt like they were panicking, trying to figure out what would become of them now that they had been swallowed by a whale. I've do…

I think you might have GitHub and GitLab mixed up.

Indeed I have. I didn't intend it to be, but it is accidentally a data point on the distinctiveness of brand names in this sector.

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Post by rdedev »

simonw wrote: post #164

This is quite an aggressively optimistic vision for the future of the software industry to tuck into a "workforce reduction" announcement: > The agentic era multiplies demand for software. Software has been the force multiplier behind nearly every business transformation of the last two decades. The constraint was the cost and time of producing and managing it. That constraint is collapsing. As the cost of producing…

> hundreds/user/month

What is this based on? The only thing I can think of is AI coding tools but only a few companies do it properly. I don't see gitlab capturing any of that spending

Also the whole "removing layers". Today's prof g market video was about the topic. Afaik it was the Coinbase CEO telling the same. Do these people get together to discuss their talking points? Or are they signalling to investors?

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Post by bob001 »

vkou wrote: post #92
bob001 wrote: post #55

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Middle management is also why there’s so many broken processes and challenges in the first place.

Middle management exists to turn conflicting marching orders from the directors into less conflicting marching orders for the line workers, and to keep any negative feedback on how fucking stupid the directors are from ever reaching them. They don't cause the broken processes. They are the symptom of a broken executive process. A fish rots from the head down, and the people at the top get exactly the kind of company…

A Director is middle management. Line managers are the ones that turn that into action and they are not middle management.

Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

sgarland wrote: post #245
OhMeadhbh wrote: post #242

How many people are at GitHub these days? I interviewed there just less than a decade ago and they REALLY did not like me. I kept yammering on about ensuring your KPIs are correct and making sure people felt psychologically safe. I think this was just after they were nabbed my MSFT and it felt like they were panicking, trying to figure out what would become of them now that they had been swallowed by a whale. I've do…

…this is GitLab, not GitHub.

You say tomato, I say tomahto. Yes, my mistake. I shouldn't post things before my mid-afternoon coffee.

Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Post by sgarland »

ceejayoz wrote: post #185
noitpmeder wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're not a team player I'd expect you to be on the chopping block regardless of underlying race, mental, culture, ...

It’s not like we have a term like “individual contributor” or anything in the industry. I’ve worked with several excellent “just leave me alone” sysadmin types.

Alas, I’ve learned that while everyone wants to hire them to fix their hideously fucked systems, they really don’t enjoy being told that their systems are, in fact, hideously fucked. They’d much prefer you quietly put out fires while biting your tongue about how they aren’t actually fixing any root causes.
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