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This post almost needs a CW.
I got as far as Core Beliefs and already started wincing. Truly sad to see such a great project become so very lost.
TL;DR upper management at GitLab has joined the machine cult and is taking the project with them.
"Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built."
Wrong way, turn back.
@JulianOliver why are there so many people at the high level running companies making these stupid decisions? This is going to cause so much necessary chaos?!
@JulianOliver that manifesto read like an Onion piece.
@petrikas You're right. It truly does. This idiocracy.
I'd hope it's occurred to at least someone at GitLab that if we hand over software development to machines, the fantasy of control over that process will be short lived.
Further, it risks a future where we will not be able to read software written by 'AI', soon enough needing abstraction layers & interpreters to understand it. Human-legibility in code will be a bottle-neck.
Our computed languages, built to be read & written by people, could become increasingly irrelevant under this capture.
@mro This is a great thread, thanks.
Hi @JulianOliver,
frankly I am not at all surprised. When github.com got bought, I looked around where to go in the longer run. gitlab.com wasn't a safe bet already back then - the smell of #enterprise/#corporate #VC #money was strong.
I took the indie & mirror route and never regret it: https://blog.mro.name/2024/10/scaling-infrastructure/#:~:text=gitlab%2Ecom
Be #vulnerable! Be #resilient! Practise #solidarity!
@JulianOliver Read this yesterday. By the end it felt like I'd been sucked into an LLM-generated managementhole. "Everyone is on my team"? I thought we'd satired the shit out of this shit by now.
@JulianOliver Jeez, what a shame, and such unnecessary dogmatism. I seriously wanted to try out GitLab again. But now I’d rather go with Codeberg/Forgejo. 🤔
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