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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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> 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 Two big red flags here. First git itself is distributed an…

> Sadly non engineering leaders buy into this dogma. AI is very usefull but in my experience doesn’t 10x if you don’t YOLO it.

It makes you have 10x more the errors if you YOLO it ;) especially at a scale even remotely comparable to gitlab :/

Doesn't really inspire the greatest of confidences when they are literally dropping the ball on one of the greatest opportunities as github is being ensloppified.

Sometimes I wonder if I am more passionate towards my 7$/yr vps's and websites running on it than 7 billion $ companies (GitLab has a market cap or net worth of $4.36 billion. The enterprise value is $3.10 billion.[0] to be exact)

break things and move fast should work when you have 1000 users on your website, not 1000 full on entreprises (probably more for gitlab)

> I guesss they mean “gitlab” instead of “git”. But such a huge mistake would never go unnoticed.

> Are they going to rebuilt git??

These comments make me realize again how you all (who were alive ie) must have felt during the pets.com and dotcom mania. Some of these sentences are almost onion-video like titles. Its so all weird at a certain point. I am unsure how to feel about this.

[0]: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/gtlb/statistics/

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

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post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Speed with Quality" Having been in some of these values meetings, I really imagine it went like this: someone wanted speed, and someone else wanted quality. Sorry, I mean Speed and Quality. Many people said there is a tradeoff between those two things, and only one thing can be first. Some brilliant businessman: "I know, we'll combine them. We want Speed _and_ Quality." Thus, "Speed with Quality." Tada! Values are a…

The funny thing is you absolutely can do things which improve both speed and quality at the same time (basic good engineering), but they're like 3 or 4 orders of effect removed from those outcomes and impossible to do when you have someone breathing down your neck asking "does this make us go faster" at every step of the way. Also "our velocity is 3x higher than it would be in the imaginary invisible universe where w…

Indeed. Like the brakes on a car. They enable speed and quality driving

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

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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.

> The ball is right there, bouncing alone in front of the goal Their pitch is not to you, the dev. But, to the investor class. We are in this funny place in the market where you can make more money by catering to the investor class than to customers. In other words, an upside down world.

Crazy US money printer allows this, so why not.

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

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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.

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

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Someone should gather all the creatively worded layoff announcements and put them into a museum. Aside, none of these announcements even attempt to make sense. GitLab's TAM is exploding, demand is through the roof, LLM tooling is making each IC more productive, and to capatalize on this moment GitLab is ... "transparently restructuring" by asking employees to quit so they don't have to lay off as many...

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

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Not making sense to me at all. The AI era should be a great opportunity for Github to show their reliability and developer-first law, but they decided to all in AI. As a developer, what I need is a well-working repository, not a agent that write, review, even publish the code for me.

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

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post #103

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.

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

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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.

Long live "SQOMCO"
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