Post #2673292

2026-05-12 10:01 UTC

The outcome of this will be *worse* software. It will feel even more plastic, it will be even more brittle, and it's not because we don't know how to write better, more reliable software, but because the industry decided that writing better software is not how money is made. And GitLab just went all-in, announced to the world: we're here for plastic software, we're here for shit quality code, we're here for forcing people to review unreviewable slop and then blaming them for the bugs.

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@rysiek@mstdn.social 2026-05-12 10:06

The push for this is about labor, and is about power. CEOs all around the world have wet dreams of never having to pay people ever again. Of never having to hire people. Slaves would be good though. And AI "agents" is the closest CEOs can get to slaves. The next closest thing are employees that are too terrified of getting fired to stand up for themselves. No surprise, then, that in this same blogpost, in the same breath, GitLab's CEO announced layoffs.

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@GnosticStreetSweeper@mastodon.zip 2026-05-12 17:21

@rysiek@mstdn.social Codeberg for the people! The ability for technologists to jump ship and build their own distributed platforms scares the shit out of big tech.

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@paco@infosec.exchange 2026-05-14 13:04

@rysiek@mstdn.social Isn’t the whole robotaxi and self-driving function much the same? Make the software shitty, and then blame the safety driver or car owner when the software fails. Like saying everyone should churn out AI slop and people should successfully review the unreviewable. And then blame the reviewer instead of the author/submitter of shitty code.

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