Another one bites the dust.
Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
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Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#22What was the USP of their CI service?
Ability to virtualize on Apple devices and linux with GPUs https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/24990
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#23FTA: > 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.
Same; the reason everyone ran out to buy Mac Minis last month is it gave their Claw access to iMessage, their browser cookies, and a residential IP. Cirrus provides a way to provision and orchestrate MacOS VMs, which is exactly what I did for running Openclaw (for a minute …).
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#24The 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 opportunities. It becomes far more "high stakes" since you have to take the risk of starting and running a startup that ultimately fails if it does not get acqui-hired.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#25I just love how companies like this gaslight the whole world with announcements like this.
We started a company to make a big difference in the world and build an engineer’s dream company, and that’s why we have now decided to do the exact opposite and become employee numbers 32,463 through 32,510 at one of the largest tech companies in the world because money is nice.
Look, I’d have done the same thing, I’m not criticizing the choice. I just think we don’t need this kind of weird unnatural rhetoric.
Please just stop with the tech industry puffery. You’re not Steve Jobs, you’re just the DevOps team at OpenAI now. You’re dumping your worthless code on GitHub, and you’re kicking your customers to the curb.
There’s no PR spin left to do anymore. You’re not a company anymore and you’re not a founder anymore.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#26Note that this is fundamentally different from the Astral acquisition. At the end of their announcement, they stated: > Cirrus CI will shut down effective Monday, June 1, 2026. And earlier in the article: > Joining OpenAI allows us to extend the mission we started with Cirrus Labs: building new kinds of tooling and environments that make engineers more effective, for both human engineers and agentic engineers. It isn…
It could also be a suite of product acquisition, the CI could be a product OpenAI is interested in having, but not sell.
Yeah. Much like Astral - acquiring both the product (because they need to use it internally, but don't care about trying to resell / market), and they also want the talent to keep maintaining it / add features they want.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#27I just love how companies like this gaslight the whole world with announcements like this. We started a company to make a big difference in the world and build an engineer’s dream company, and that’s why we have now decided to do the exact opposite and become employee numbers 32,463 through 32,510 at one of the largest tech companies in the world because money is nice. Look, I’d have done the same thing, I’m not crit…
Making a statement like this is generally part of the terms of the acquisition.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#28I just love how companies like this gaslight the whole world with announcements like this. We started a company to make a big difference in the world and build an engineer’s dream company, and that’s why we have now decided to do the exact opposite and become employee numbers 32,463 through 32,510 at one of the largest tech companies in the world because money is nice. Look, I’d have done the same thing, I’m not crit…
Making a statement like this is generally part of the terms of the acquisition.
Sure, but I imagine the terms of the acquisition doesn’t say you have to write it in this specific style.
I’m sure there’s a way to say the same thing without coming across as a bullshitter.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#29I just love how companies like this gaslight the whole world with announcements like this. We started a company to make a big difference in the world and build an engineer’s dream company, and that’s why we have now decided to do the exact opposite and become employee numbers 32,463 through 32,510 at one of the largest tech companies in the world because money is nice. Look, I’d have done the same thing, I’m not crit…
More like employees number 32,463 and 32,464 - they’re two people from what I seen on GitHub over the years. (Incredibly strong two people)
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#30The 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…
It’s been true for a while, but AI seems to have exaggerated it. To me it reinforces the idea that LLMs created a “K” shaped talent market. Those whose are good become even more valuable.