Reading up on GitLab

As AI makes code production cheap, the constraint moves to trusting code, requiring a durable layer of context, verification, and governance.

GitLab is cutting 350 employees (14% of workforce) and exiting 22 countries to restructure and pivot toward AI.

A tech-titan fantasy dream of building a new forge that fixes GitHub's flaws with stacked PRs, pre-commit feedback, flexible approvals, and tiny self-hostable units.

GitHub has become unreliable and slop-filled under Microsoft, prompting users to migrate to alternative Git forges.

GitHub now natively supports stacked pull requests within monorepos, enabling developers to break large changes into smaller, reviewable PRs.

Cursor adds over 30 new plugins from partners including Atlassian and Datadog to extend its AI-powered coding agent's capabilities across infrastructure and productivity tools.

The author proposes defining a company's structure, roles, and processes as declarative code, enabling versioning, testing, and automation.

GitLab co-founder Sid Sijbrandij used a founder-mode strategy of maximal diagnostics and personalized therapies to achieve remission from osteosarcoma after standard care failed.