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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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Post by runako »

copper-float wrote: post #324
Animats wrote: 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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So much of the kerfuffle about DEI has always been around the fact that people don't understand what DEI means.

Also, in the current environment, I don't see how anyone can look around and argue that merit-based hiring is a norm anywhere. Even at hotspots of anti-DEI, "merit" often means "friend of a friend" or similar.

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

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Post by mirekrusin »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #379
skrrtww wrote: post #11

A 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.

there’s a familiar saying “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” i think that applies here as well. everyone (customers) want AI; investors demand it. it may eventually calm down but i’m sure many companies will be left behind and ultimately fade away if they don’t keep up until then.

I don't think anything is going to calm down.

Models will only get better with time, not worse.

Demand will keep raising.

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

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Post by mirekrusin »

solid_fuel wrote: post #172
u_fucking_dork wrote: post #98

Earlier 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.

Your comment was also completion.

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

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Post by perching_aix »

rdevilla wrote: post #360
perching_aix wrote: post #349

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I think the idea is that each letter in there is considered a merit , hence why it's always discussed under the "core values" section. That is to say, they're properties that they supposedly value, next to technical excellence, team fit, being a spitfire, whatever. And that the discussed-to-death diversity hiring quotas are not its entirety, or even necessarily a part, of it. Merit not being a threshold but a range i…

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

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Post by solid_fuel »

mirekrusin wrote: post #384
solid_fuel wrote: post #172

Earlier 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 comment was also completion.

And what would that make yours?

I think, therefore I am. You parrot, therefore you are... ?

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

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Post by stx5 »

ai_fry_ur_brain wrote: post #77
skrrtww wrote: post #11

A 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.

Let these people keep betting their companies, futures and net competency on text autocomplete. The future is bright for me and everyone else that isn't falling for it.

What makes you think you're anything more than a 'text autocompleter'? You are justing auto completing someone's comment

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

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Post by solid_fuel »

u_fucking_dork wrote: post #295
solid_fuel wrote: post #172

Earlier 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.

Mine has like, 8 walls, but sure. It's a box. Crucially, it was sold as a box. Not a thinking machine.

Your attempt at an analogy will make sense when someone tries to install a house as middle management at some company.

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

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Post by abnercoimbre »

abalashov wrote: post #367
herpdyderp wrote: post #78

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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.

Can highly recommend it. Gitea issues, PRs and actions all work as expected.

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

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Post by tokioyoyo »

PunchyHamster wrote: post #113
u_fucking_dork wrote: post #108

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Brother there’s nothing to capitalize on. They really don’t want an avalanche of free users bringing their shit down too I think.

companies using paid github are in same spot. Tho I'd imagine many already moved over

Most companies signing up to the idea that GitHub will fix their issues, rather than going through operational pain of migration. Everyone that I know jokes about GH downtime, but have zero internal talks about migration. Obviously small data point, but GitLab going this route shows not a lot of people are switching.
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