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

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Post by ai_fry_ur_brain »

jpadkins wrote: post #663
altmanaltman wrote: post #393

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you seriously cannot tell what is the difference between a human being and a LLM and think they are both "autocompleters", you know very little about both humans and LLMs.

I cannot. Please explain the difference to me. Everything I've read about neuroscience is basically the brain is a signal prediction machine. The harness, signals and incentive (hormone) systems may be different, but predicting the future is basic building blocks of intelligence.

How much karma do you have on reddit, probably millions.

Only redditors with Dunning-Kruger would say something like this.

I reccomend the podcast Machine Learning Street Talk, you'll find plenty of machine learning PhDs who are also neuroscientists that are completely mystified by the brain, how it works and what intelligence is. The people at the forefront of nueroscience definately aren't reducing human intelligence and experience to "signal processing", or whatever you think it is.

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

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Post by everfrustrated »

dmix wrote: post #623
shimman wrote: post #26

GitLab is a great example of a lifestyle company that should have never become a public corporation.

They have almost a billion dollars in revenue

And somehow still never profitable! Living on borrowed time. Cuts were always coming. Nothing to do with AI.

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

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Post by everfrustrated »

Game_Ender wrote: post #146
PunchyHamster wrote: post #113

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

Unless you pay for enterprise then you are on the Enterprise Cloud Instance: https://us.githubstatus.com/posts/dashboard

No the Enterprise Cloud is just the same GitHub.com with the same shitty reliability.

However the newer Enterprise Cloud with Residency (aka on Azure) is a separate partition and has a different reliability domain (still subject to Azures bad reliability so not an entirely compelling offer). This is what you linked.

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

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Post by __turbobrew__ »

KaiserPro wrote: post #576
oblio wrote: post #553

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What's wrong with Ceph?

Whats right with it? Its slow, large, excessively complex and not that resilient to failure. You either want a bunch of NFS machines backed on to ZFS on nvme, with a central jumping off point that allows sharding (this is critical to allow one or more NFS server to fuck up and not kill access to everything else.) Or, pay the money and use GPFS

You are calling infra teams green for using ceph but then recommending hand rolling a sharded system on top of nfs? I think you have it backwards.

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

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Post by duxup »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #648
duxup wrote: post #618

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And who knows the fix to some of these issues might be a hell of a lot more worked now that the bug has been baked in and the "real" fix is herculean now.

Good point. Related: a lot of what seem like simple tickets require a real conversation about "well, how should this work?"

That’s been my last couple months. “Yes this is a bug / not optimal, but all the imagined paths / solutions are not great or a mountain of new code / requirements …”

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Post by everfrustrated »

reddozen wrote: post #421
torben-friis wrote: post #87

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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.

I still have gitlab pegged in my mind as the company that rm -rf'd their production database TWICE separately and lost pull requests.

Yup. That was such an embarrassing incident and their postmortem of it was worse. They actually thought being transparent about how bad their engineering was would do them favours.

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Post by dangus »

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.

It seems like you’re using the achievements of white men as some kind of odd way to put down the achievements of people who aren’t men. They’re “peak performance” but everyone else isn’t, is that what you’re implying?

Ever heard of Ada Lovelace?

Grace Hopper, inventor of the compiler?

Katherine Johnson, who performed the calculations for John Glenn's Friendship 7 orbital flight, also did some calculations for the Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 missions.

Margaret Hamilton, who created the term “software engineer” among other accomplishments as a computer programmer for the Apollo project.

Adele Goldberg, part of the team who developed Smalltalk.

You brought up Doom, so I’ll bring up the creative director of Uncharted series Amy Hennig, Kim Swift the game designer for Portal, Shannon Loftis at Microsoft, Ellen Beeman game designer for the Wing Commander series…

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

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Post by [deleted] »

userbinator wrote: post #500
lsdajsadsfdakl wrote: post #429

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

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Post by verall »

petetnt wrote: post #13

With it’s current AI setup GitLab still couldn’t make anything that could be called great in UX so I can’t wait to see what they can do by eliminating the remaining human factor. Can’t personally wait seeing tickets like these [0] open for months with bots telling you that everything will be alright. [0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/588806

That issue looks like it was filed 3 months ago and there has been active development debugging and trying to fix it the whole time?

I dunno, at mag7 i see painful infra bugs sitting on the vine for years... maybe my bar is low, but that bug looks like a good response

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

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Post by computerz420 »

Bill Staples and his band of inept buddies (he hired all his ex-MS friends to replace the c-suite at GL) ruin another company and get each other rich via the enshittification of a decent product. Sucks that this company was once one of the good ones.

Having the employees compete in the Hunger Games for their jobs over the next few weeks is just unnecessarily cruel and stupid. Weak leadership, bad strategy.

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