I'm really frustrated that GitLab is doing layoffs

GitLab announced layoffs today. They don't state how many people are affected, but honestly I find this really frustrating for several reasons: This is the one time where they could have won by doing relatively nothing. GitHub is having big outages on a daily cadence. All they have to do is market themselves as "we're the stable one" and maybe add tooling to run your existing GitHub Actions in GitLab to make the transition easier. They could have won so hard it's not even funny because GitLab makes it trivial to host it yourself. This is yet another case of "the stock price has gone down but we don't want to look bad to investors so we'll say that AI is going to help us more". I'm increasingly skeptical of this claim, but it's what makes the company look good to the people with the money sooo... They claim that one of their main goals is "Speed with Quality". Usually this is a "of two, pick one" type of scenario. I shudder to think what may happen when GitLab turns into a feature…