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Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
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Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#32The 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…
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Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#33Cirrus gave a ton of support for years to open source projects. I congratulate them on cashing out. Running a business like Cirrus did is always a hard road and I will never fault folks who gave time and resources on their platform away for taking the money.
I wish Fedor and everyone at Cirrus the best of luck and OpenAI and thank them immensely for the years of free CI they gave to us in the Pony programming language despite it not having any marketing value to them.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#35What was the USP of their CI service?
To create an ephemeral (docker-like) MacOS VM on a Mac with full performance and access (e.g. GPU) you have to use a virtualization API provided by Apple.
For most CI use, you can choose between:
Anka, a "contact-us for pricing" closed-source projet, where you have to pay expensive license (easy 3000 USD/yr per machine)
tart, which is a lightweight wrapper around the official Apple API.
https://github.com/cirruslabs/orchard/commit/3cfa2445500f45f...
With https://khronokernel.com/macos/2023/08/08/AS-VM.html
Some people might find it very attractive:
Instead 25 Mac Mini you might need only 5.
+ No licensing to pay to Anka.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#36I'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.
What software do you use to run your CI?
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#37Wow, 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 replace it with in my personal projects. I guess I’ll run their cirrus-cli in GitHub Actions for a while. But GitHub Actions is really poor. I heard some good things about Buildkite.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#38What was the USP of their CI service?
Better UX than their competitors and support for many different images.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#39Wow. I have rarely seen a company website with so many buzzwords. Still not sure what they do, except "AI". Good riddance
Cuirrus does not do AI, they do CI.
Re: Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI
#40I liked “our incredible journey” more when it wasn’t rushing headlong into OpenMawAI
Every great journey must have an end. As far as I understand Cirrus CI was struggling due to Github Actions eating their market. Cirrus CI was in my opinion much better than Github Actions but it is hard to compete with a bundled solution.