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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
#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
you say suck it fascist in response to DEI being removed, i say DEI would get canned by communists and fascists both, autofill the rest of the argument with some prose
> you say suck it fascist in response to DEI being removed, Re-read the thread. They made a joke about acronyms.
initial comment - 'gitlab no more dei'
secondary comment - 'suck it fascist'
third comment - 'fascism and communism would both get rid of dei'
whereabouts did the room get misread?
Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
#363Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
#364Not 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.
This has nothing to do with GitHub.
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#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's literally text autocomplete. You can dress it up however you want but it takes input text and outputs the most likely next sequence.
Reminds me of when microwaves first came out. Investors decided to go all in on "vibe cooking" (lit. cooking with vibrations) complete with microwave ranges (no conventional oven), until the public wizened up to the fact that there was in fact no cooking (Maillard reaction) involved in their vibe cooking. Took about 15-20 years but microwaves finally took their rightful place as a utility appliance rather than what t…
This is an unexpectedly apt comparison, and I appreciated it.
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#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
8 layers of management??? At gitlabs team size, that means every manager has 2-3 reports? Yeah, I'd be cutting layers too.
They have 2800 employees with 5-10 reports per manager.
At 8 layers of management (so 9 layers total, with the bottom rung being non-management), 3 reports per manager comes out to 6561 employers on the bottom rung. At 5 reports each, that 8 layers would give you over 300k at the bottom, an 10 each would give you 100m at the bottom.
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#367Wow gitlab. Right when everyone was looking to see if you could lead with all the fails at github, you basically said "We're going to throw our source at ChatGPT and see what happens"
Right? I was seriously considering migrating everything in our company from GitHub to GitLab. Now I'm seriously considering self hosting our git instead.
You'd be surprised how far you can get with self-hosted Gitea.
Re: GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values
#368A lot of the conclusions they're drawing in this post about the "agentic era" seem quite misguided and some don't really seem to make sense. I have no doubt GitLab has too many employees and can benefit from being a more focused company, but it's tiring reading these layoff posts so chock full of buzzwords. I guess they're desperately hoping if they prognosticate about AI enough it will placate the investors.
And people wonder why there is so much push back against AI. The last thing leadership should do when laying off people is use the term AI. It's the most tone deaf thing you can do.
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#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's literally text autocomplete. You can dress it up however you want but it takes input text and outputs the most likely next sequence.
Your house is literally just a box. You can dress it up however you want but it has 4 walls and a lid.
The secret to woodworking is that everything is a box.
The secret to AI is that everything is token matching.
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#370Earlier quoted context omitted.
Calling it text autocomplete is played out and really just makes you look bad at this point.
It's literally text autocomplete. You can dress it up however you want but it takes input text and outputs the most likely next sequence.
AI is a text autocomplete. This is tge best AI definition i heard and agree with 100% Thank you.