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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 crote »

Trasmatta wrote: post #45
Animats wrote: post #17

Their old CREDIT values: Collaboration, Results for Customers, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Iteration, and Transparency. New values: Speed with Quality, Ownership Mindset, Customer Outcomes. In other words, work harder, not smarter, and no more DEI.

> Ownership Mindset Every company I've worked at hammers the "ownership" idea and I hate it so much. It's how they drive a culture where employees are expected to invest themselves into "owning" a problem space that can be taken from them at any moment. It's how they trick you into doing extra work that's not in your job description. Unless you're ACTUALLY an owner, don't be fooled by an "ownership" value.

Ownership implies both accountability and agency. In practice you often get all of the accountability, none of the agency.

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

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Post by skywhopper »

“Agents open merge requests in parallel, trigger pipelines around the clock, and push commits at a rate no human team ever did. Git itself wasn't designed for that load .... Git itself is being reengineered for machine scale. The monolith is giving way to modern, API-first, composable services.”

Hmm, does the CEO of — checks notes — “GitLab” know what Git is?

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

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Post by kajman »

I'd hate to be their customer right now. Is this the only "corporate-scale" forge besides Github?

There's a lot of cool things happening between Gitea/Forgejo, Tangled, and Radical, but I doubt the latter two have any significant usage beyond OSS hobby projects. I'm not sure if the former two do, either.

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

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Post by mrbungie »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #90
Animats wrote: post #17

Their old CREDIT values: Collaboration, Results for Customers, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Iteration, and Transparency. New values: Speed with Quality, Ownership Mindset, Customer Outcomes. In other words, work harder, not smarter, and no more DEI.

I thought that the GitHub degrading would be an opportunity for them to be an alternative more focused in stability and a customer centric approach . But it's just more slop

Investors actually want slop-branded AI on everything right now, so it checks out for companies to maximize for it. We are so fucked.

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

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Post by u_fucking_dork »

Havoc wrote: post #37

>removing up to three layers of management in some functions so leaders are closer to the work. I wish them the best of luck with that plan. Middle management is where the institutional knowledge sits on how to actually get shit done despite challenges & broken processes/systems. It's an even worse plan than eliminating juniors.

GitHub was famously flat and far more successful than them.

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

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Post by zmmmmm »

Rather striking statements that have me somewhat concerned:

> Agents open merge requests in parallel, trigger pipelines around the clock, and push commits at a rate no human team ever did. Git itself wasn't designed for that load, and bolting AI onto platforms not built for agents is the biggest mistake of this era. We're doing a generational rebuild of the underlying infrastructure to handle agent-rate work as the default. Git itself is being reengineered for machine scale. The monolith is giving way to modern, API-first, composable services. And agent-specific APIs are being built so agents can act as first-class users of the platform, not as bolted-on consumers of human-shaped interfaces

Is there any broader consensus or information on this? Git doesn't scale? is being rebuilt for agents?! Monoliths are out and services are back? Humans are second class citizens now (human shaped interfaces - bad!!)?

What the hell are they planning to do in there at Gitlab?!

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

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Post by u_fucking_dork »

fidotron wrote: post #22

The fact they can't capitalize on the current trainwreck of GitHub speaks volumes. If they had the right product people would be throwing money at them.

Brother there’s nothing to capitalize on. They really don’t want an avalanche of free users bringing their shit down too I think.

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

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Post by PunchyHamster »

Havoc wrote: post #37

>removing up to three layers of management in some functions so leaders are closer to the work. I wish them the best of luck with that plan. Middle management is where the institutional knowledge sits on how to actually get shit done despite challenges & broken processes/systems. It's an even worse plan than eliminating juniors.

Not with 8 layers of it. Institutional knowledge lies between managers and engineers and maybe one layer above that, not further

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

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Post by PradeetPatel »

Animats wrote: post #17

Their old CREDIT values: Collaboration, Results for Customers, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Iteration, and Transparency. New values: Speed with Quality, Ownership Mindset, Customer Outcomes. In other words, work harder, not smarter, and no more DEI.

There seems to be a massive push against DEI over the last few years in the tech industry globally, despite it being one of the industry's greatest strength.

Does anyone know what caused this?

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