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Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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Post by jitl »

michaelcampbell wrote: post #56
trollbridge wrote: post #24

The level of aqui-hires is getting interesting - at this point, it appears that if one wants one's career to progress, you need to start some kind of tiny startup like Astral or Bun and hope to be notable enough you can get acquired by someone like OpenAI or Anthropic. It certainly makes the idea of a career progression / promotion more challenging than it used to be, but perhaps it also opens up some new opportuniti…

> at this point, it appears that if one wants one's career to progress, you need to start some kind of tiny startup like Astral or Bun and hope to be notable enough you can get acquired by someone like OpenAI or Anthropic This has been popular for 25+ years. Likely before, but that's when I first started noticing a significant number of companies that were clearly in business solely TO BE BOUGHT.

yes selling things unheard of in business. quite unusual to participate in economy

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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Post by yoyohello13 »

brap wrote: post #102
taurath wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a VC site. Morality or changing the world for the better is window dressing on earning as much money as possible and damn anyone who gets in the way. Morality is only good in as much as it’s good for business to be seen as moral. Money people have been majority running things for over 2 decades at least but the mythos lives on.

Killing bad people is changing the world for the better

Yeah, the ‘bad’ people.

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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Post by dangoodmanUT »

MaxLeiter wrote: post #18

FTA: > In 2022, we built Tart, which became the most popular virtualization solution for Apple Silicon, along with several other tools along the way. from Tart's github: > [Tart is for] macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations My (naive?) hypothesis is this kind of expertise is why OpenAI chose to acquihire.

Note that apples terms do not allow someone to sell something like an agent running on macOS. They have explicit cut outs for 24-hour minimum leases of full hardware, but they prohibit this with vms

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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Post by codethief »

bartekpacia wrote: post #37

Wow, this is surprising. I’m happy for the founders, they’re great folks. I contributed to CirrusCI a bit in the past and it was a great experience. I even advocated for Cirrus in a couple of my last $DAYJOBs (with varied success). Congrats Fedor! I’m very sad they’re shutting down, though. IMHO CirrusCI was very close to a perfect CI system (I wrote a blogpost about it [0]). I’ll now have to find something to replac…

> I wrote a blogpost about it [0]

Having tried many other CI systems, all of which ultimately turned out to be subpar, it makes me incredibly sad to discover only now that Cirrus CI is (was?) quite a bit better than them. :( Thanks for the blog post, though!

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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Post by greybeard26 »

Aurornis wrote: post #59
faangguyindia wrote: post #12

I've moved most companies away from using others stuff Today we use Hertzner and OVH and roll out our own solution whenever possible. Running lean and mean. Depending on such third party services is a trap.

Been there, done that, and I still find value in 3rd party services despite the occasional need to migrate. Self hosting is the way to go if you need to keep monthly services spend as low as possible but you have extra time to spend, such as with a hobby project. Whenever I’ve worked on real startup projects, self-hosting became a constant source of little tasks for the engineering team to mix into our weekly workloa…

... please keep doing backups and DR tests.

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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Post by xp84 »

fidotron wrote: post #7

Am I reading this right?: a CI company that shuts down CI services with such short notice? Do service providers not think customers have other things to do than simply maintain their existing infrastructure?

I mean, it’s no different than any other company who goes out of business. Yeah, their star rating on Yelp is gonna take a major hit, but on the other hand, they don’t exist anymore so shrug feel free to hold a grudge against them, I guess.

This is the risk we run when we get services from companies that aren’t Microsoft, IBM, etc. (I would say Google but LOL, they obviously kill products even faster than the startup death cycle).

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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Post by xp84 »

dangus wrote: post #94
dbalatero wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just don't think there's much upside to telling it how it is in the press release that gets buried after a week and everyone moves on. For better or worse.

Why is telling it like it is not the rational default? If this is a forgettable press release isn't it lower effort than coming up with this type of nonsense?

Maybe it’s just my age or how my brain works, but positivity with a touch of BS is just business-speak. My company sold itself to a crappy company who fired most of us, but my departure message for my colleagues was full of “I’ve enjoyed this journey, it’s been a privilege, blah blah” and not “I’ve actually been counting down the days to be done with this nonsense since even before the acquisition.”

You say this stuff because we all agree to sugar coat this type of thing. We all love money and most of us would sell a clearly-never-going-to-be-unicorn company we founded to just about any company if they offered a price that would make you or your whole team set for life. Like, I’d sell to Salesforce, or IBM, or Oracle, or Microsoft or Apple, or Monster Cable, or Ticketmaster. At least half of those, most of us would say are not innovative, and would ruin the product. But no one wants to work with or hire someone who comes right out and says “I hope we sell the company to some rich jerks (ANY rich jerks, really!) so I can retire to the Bahamas.”

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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Post by tagraves »

bartekpacia wrote: post #37

Wow, this is surprising. I’m happy for the founders, they’re great folks. I contributed to CirrusCI a bit in the past and it was a great experience. I even advocated for Cirrus in a couple of my last $DAYJOBs (with varied success). Congrats Fedor! I’m very sad they’re shutting down, though. IMHO CirrusCI was very close to a perfect CI system (I wrote a blogpost about it [0]). I’ll now have to find something to replac…

Well, check out RWX! We don't do exactly everything like CirrusCI did -- most notably, we aren't open source and we are still managing all of our own infrastructure for running CI right now -- but we have a great "local" story and a validation CLI (`rwx lint`), and a lot of fundamental changes that make us better than other CI systems too :)

Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

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Post by emptysongglass »

tagraves wrote: post #129
bartekpacia wrote: post #37

Wow, this is surprising. I’m happy for the founders, they’re great folks. I contributed to CirrusCI a bit in the past and it was a great experience. I even advocated for Cirrus in a couple of my last $DAYJOBs (with varied success). Congrats Fedor! I’m very sad they’re shutting down, though. IMHO CirrusCI was very close to a perfect CI system (I wrote a blogpost about it [0]). I’ll now have to find something to replac…

Well, check out RWX! We don't do exactly everything like CirrusCI did -- most notably, we aren't open source and we are still managing all of our own infrastructure for running CI right now -- but we have a great "local" story and a validation CLI (`rwx lint`), and a lot of fundamental changes that make us better than other CI systems too :)

Why would anyone move to a closed-source tool like yours? It's 2026.
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