Post #2485804
2026-05-12 09:50 UTC
Replies (15)
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@rysiek@mstdn.social 2026-05-12 09:56
Software has been "built by machines, directed by people" for decades. That's what compilers and linkers do, that's what uncountable lines of Bash and endless CI/CD pipelines are – machines building software, directed by people. And for decades, the bottleneck has not been churning out code. It was code review, it was quality control, it was bug fixing. AI slop makes that *worse*, not better: https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367 GitLab, and the rest of the industry, is solving for the wrong problem.
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@joakimfors@mastodon.green 2026-05-12 09:52
@rysiek@mstdn.social Yeah, they made worrying noises last year. Guess the mask is fully coming off now. I've been mentally (and somewhat practically) preparing a move to Forgejo for a while for stuff I control.
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@rawenwolf@meow.social 2026-05-12 09:54
@rysiek@mstdn.social I avoided reading the blog post despite seeing it earlier but now I skimmed through it ... The fact the fucking present day GitHub sounds like a far better choice compared to this now speaks volumes.
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@loathsome_dongeater@toots.matapacos.dog 2026-05-12 09:54
@rysiek@mstdn.social this is so unhinged
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@toxy@mastodon.acc.sunet.se 2026-05-12 10:21
@rysiek@mstdn.social It’s really just a letter to investors isn’t it?
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@Eichi@mastodon.bierschutzpartei.de 2026-05-12 11:08
@rysiek@mstdn.social There's a chance this is just some yapping about how great AI is to make investors happy. But its best to remain cautious
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@heluecht@pirati.ca 2026-05-12 11:09
@rysiek@mstdn.social "right-sizing" is such an euphemistic way to say that people will be fired. This decision to move that way was surely not driven by the development department but by their investors. I guess that this currently happens in a lot of companies. And I really can't see that this will go out well. This whole "The AI will save us multiple people" doesn't work. Sure, it speeds up things, but it increases the review time a lot. And when I understood that post in the right way, they even dream of letting humans completely out of the loop - and that will fail.
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@nzJayZee@mastodon.nz 2026-05-12 11:16
@rysiek@mstdn.social first you lock in your customers, then you lock in your investors...
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@britter@chaos.social 2026-05-12 11:27
@rysiek@mstdn.social time to move to frogejo 🤷♂️
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@fozzy@defcon.social 2026-05-12 11:47
@rysiek@mstdn.social we will write own git repo mgr with rust and horses
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@miclgael@hachyderm.io 2026-05-12 12:09
@rysiek@mstdn.social grossssssssssssssss
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@rbphotographic@mastodon.world 2026-05-12 12:15
@rysiek@mstdn.social looks like need to start looking for an alternative.
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@danni_storm@hachyderm.io 2026-05-12 12:28
@rysiek@mstdn.social ugh. I have been debating where I wanted to move to when I ditch GitHub for close to a year now. I got real hinky 'vibes' when I looked at GitLab's website last week and the entire homepage was a love letter to AI. Fuck that shit. Self hosed Forgego or Codeberg it is then.
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@esi@merveilles.town 2026-05-12 12:31
@rysiek@mstdn.social /me packs his bags.
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@bird@birdbox.party 2026-05-12 12:49
@rysiek@mstdn.social I didn't know that GitLab wanted people to use Forgejo so badly. Now GitHub are probably going to do something similar, like try to find a way to sell Copilot more than they are already are