GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values

Post by rocky1976 » Tue, May 12, 2026, 10:38 AM UTC

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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.

https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/company/structure/ > GitLab has at most eight layers in the company structure (Associate/Intermediate/Senior, Manager/Staff, Senior Manager/Principal, Director/Distinguished, Senior Director, VP/Fellow, Executives, Board). > [...] You can skip layers but you generally never have someone reporting to the same layer (Example of a VP reporting to a VP). So they're counting the board…

Post by vkou » Tue, May 12, 2026, 10:43 AM UTC

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This is quite an aggressively optimistic vision for the future of the software industry to tuck into a "workforce reduction" announcement: > The agentic era multiplies demand for software. Software has been the force multiplier behind nearly every business transformation of the last two decades. The constraint was the cost and time of producing and managing it. That constraint is collapsing. As the cost of producing…

> hundreds/user/month What is this based on? The only thing I can think of is AI coding tools but only a few companies do it properly. I don't see gitlab capturing any of that spending Also the whole "removing layers". Today's prof g market video was about the topic. Afaik it was the Coinbase CEO telling the same. Do these people get together to discuss their talking points? Or are they signalling to investors?

Post by haute_cuisine » Tue, May 12, 2026, 10:48 AM UTC

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> planning to reduce the number of countries by up to 30% where we have small teams One of the really interesting things about GitLab was that not only did they have employees in a large number of countries but they also published their employee handbook which helped show quite how much work it was to support that: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/employment... lists 18 countries right now. I guess t…

Post by fg137 » Tue, May 12, 2026, 10:52 AM UTC

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Even slop-maker-makers themselves struggle: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues What hope slop-maker-users have then?

To be fair, any LLM project gets a lot of stupid tickets, by virtue of a) marketing to users who aren't really developers and b) bad developers being more likely to use LLMs. Both of these groups are more likely to write bogus or non-reproducible bug tickets, as well as feature requests that don't make any sense. My guess is 10% of those 10,000 open issues are actual bugs or sensible requests. On the other hand, LLMs…

Post by thin_carapace » Tue, May 12, 2026, 10:53 AM UTC

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Human populations dont share enough genes when they do share culture for this argument to make sense, people identifying as X culture but with Y genetics don't magically act like Y - saying "genetically encoded behavioral structures" is usually just code for "black people are dumber than white people" so you should understand why people are assuming bad faith.