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GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

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Post by locknitpicker »

siva7 wrote: post #440
locknitpicker wrote: post #431

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> 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. Last year this level of ignorance and cluelessness was amusing. Nowadays it's just sad and disappointing. It's like looking at a computer and downplaying it as something that just flips switches on and off.

Gitlab is looking to lay off people like him. All major tech companies are currently raiding to fire such employees.

> Gitlab is looking to lay off people like him. All major tech companies are currently raiding to fire such employees.

Gitlab has been strapped for cash and desperately seeking a buyer to cash out for years.

If anything, the LLM revolution represents an opportunity that Gitlab is failing to capitalize upon. They have a privileged position to develop pick axes for this gold rush, but apparently they are choosing to dismiss themselves from the race altogether.

Gitlab's decision is being taken in spite of LLMs, not because of them. Enough of this tired meme.

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Post by globular-toast »

jnwatson wrote: post #46

It just struck me. I always thought I had writing software to fall back on, in case my main gig doesn't work out. I don't think it will still be there when I'm ready to return.

If "writing software" means you took a bootcamp and can churn out some HTML/CSS/JS using a popular framework, then yeah, it won't be too valuable in future. However, if you mean you are able to deliver software to solve real problems in a variety of languages and platforms then I think you'll be ok.

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Post by Yoric »

simonw wrote: post #196

https://www.google.com/search?q=gitlab+stock shows their stock price was ~$52 a year ago and is $26 today, so down 50% in 12 months. It's quite possible this is because they weren't making enough noise about their AI strategy. If investor fears are that AI makes GitLab's business less valuable, including this in their "GitLab Act 2" announcement makes a whole lot of sense: > The agentic era multiplies demand for soft…

> It's quite possible this is because they weren't making enough noise about their AI strategy.

That's how I interpret the move, too.

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Post by Aurornis »

malaproping wrote: post #348
groby_b wrote: post #81

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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.

Mathematically that would work out to a lot less than 8 layers of management.

I wonder if they have 5-10 employees per manager at the bottom of the org chart, but a lot of middle managers and manager-like titles mixed through the middle.

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Post by franga2000 »

internet101010 wrote: post #368
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.

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.

We don't live in the same world as they do. Saying AI out loud makes line go up, not down. Investors are still eating this shit up, for now at least...

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Post by sheepscreek »

If you put the typical knee jerk reaction aside, the article is a pretty good read on where things are headed. Particularly interesting is their gut feel around problems requiring deep technical knowledge multiplying and the talent that can solve them becoming the scarcest.

What we are witnessing so far has been just the tech world’s reaction. As typical companies catch on to the agentic era, we’re going to see more layoffs. A part of it may be due to “unlocked productivity” but more of it will be to make space in their ranks for hiring more AI native workforce. Which will also be scarce at the beginning.

I think we should get ready to see a very different kind of talent war, and at a scale and pace never seen before.

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Post by userbinator »

overfeed wrote: post #345
xbmcuser wrote: post #307

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Well under this administration even if you believe in DEI best not have it written anywhere

Costco[1] is doing just fine. 1. https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/costco-defies-trump-on-dei-bu...

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Post by userbinator »

bmarnane wrote: post #134
gsinclair wrote: post #127

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I think you need to make a case for DEI being “one of the industry’s greatest strengths”. It’s not obvious to me.

If your product is used bya cross-section of society, then having a cross-section of society build it should lead to a better product no?

A million monkeys will never equal a single Einstein.

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Post by Balinares »

hkpack wrote: post #155
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.

Self-host your git, take this as a sign. Forgejo is great.

Forgejo is fantastic! Just wish there was an easier way to implement CI/CD pipeline runners.

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Post by userbinator »

lsdajsadsfdakl wrote: post #429
dangus wrote: post #269

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McKinsey has studied this extensively had has repeatedly found that diversity is financially beneficial to companies. They've had at least 4 reports on the subject. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inc... Landing page: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inc... It's obvious why this is the case if you sit down and think about it. Echo chambers of like-minded individuals ca…

The teams in the Manhattan project, the Apollo project, the inventors of the transistor, the guys who designed the Hoover dam, who wrote Doom, etc. etc. etc. etc. were not very diverse. You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

They were "not very diverse" teams but actually did have minorities in them, and those ones truly deserved their positions.
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