Internet has made it incredibly easy for people to simply complain about everything all the time. Negativity never helped humanity move forward - this post is a just a complain. The good thing? The author could actually contribute to Gitlab's code instead of writing what they should do instead because they are noobs and have no idea on to write performant code.
Secondly, I'm actually grateful for all these years where Github was amazing and helped the open source tremendously, my projects included. Github had ten amazing years. I'll be forever grateful for that. It still helps the OSS community, by the way, despite all its uptime challenges.
Thirdly, I agree, there are UX challenges that are barely justifiable, but on the uptime front, I sympathize with their teams to have to deal with the gazillion pull requests and comments made by AI agents and bots, which indeed impact performance tremendously.
1. Negativity moves humanity forward all the time. Have you read the American declaration of independence lately? It is mostly an enormous list of complaints about the British government. As citizens we have both the right and the duty to call out abuses when we see them. (The article's title is a reference to Charles Sumner's 1856 speech "The Crime against Kansas", a historic callout post if there ever was one).
2. I provide direct, actionable solutions. Saying I have to submit the PR is just moving the goalposts.
3. I have no idea if they know how to write performant code: all I know is that they don't.
4. The fact that GitHub was good for ten years and is now hot garbage is exactly my point. It should make you less tolerant of its decay, not more.
5. It is entirely within GitHub's power to rate limit the bots to protect their actual users. They choose not to do so, because they care about "ai" more than customers.
The amount of dollars that exist in this economy is mindblowing.
Ten years ago, we were talking millions, and this was already incredible when companies could raise a couple of them.
Now, headlines are only about hundred of billions. I do not know what to think about that, apart from the fact that I wish that we were putting that money to enhance human lives in general. Of course, people will say that these tools will help humans in the future, but 1) at what costs, and 2) I would prefer, I don't know, bridges or infrastructure, or free healthcare, or food for everyone.
Of course this is happening. Gitlab's values were only there for marketing - just take a look at their massive turnover of employees who get burn so fast they don't have time to update the About page fast enough.
You're wrong about the values. Since the start, GitLab's values were real and lived, unlike every other company I've been at. Only after Staples' takeover as CEO and C-suite changes, they started eroding rapidly, starting with Transparency.
Very weak argument. You could have had the same speech before AI.
I would rather say that the core product is not strong and differentiated enough to resist this new age of coding, and it's an attempt to protect revenues.
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