The agentic era affords GitLab the largest opportunity in our history as a company, and we're making the structural and strategic decisions to meet it.
This letter has three parts. First, the operational and structural news, which is hard
vscodium isn't immune to the problem tbh - put it behind a gating proxy (mitmproxy or something is probably easiest) and watch just how chatty it still is (for plugin mechanism etc)
the entire design of how the vscode ecocystem is put together is in service of their telemetry aims, imo. they may argue it's "for safety" or whatever, but it's just control and surveillance. alternative options that don't do this shit exist and operate just fine
I’ve been rewatching ReGenesis and you can sorta see a similar background to it (it being of the same vintage): bio attacks are the Big Bad, there’s actual mobilisation against viral spread, etc
kinda whiplash just how fucking rapidly the antivaxxer movement (and general anti-science) managed to spread and become popular in the years hence (and specifically circa the ~2016 mark)
and the other wild part is now this whole mess is only the one part mirroring it, there’s a whole other debt market thing that’s also replaying CDOs too. this one is more likely to be the fuse tho
yeah the dep resolution and instance management being snappy as hell are big reasons why people went for uv, but I suspect this will now get reevaluated (it should’ve been earlier)
pdm is what you want afaik btw, poetry is outclassed for a while now
gitlab posts a totally-not-a-dear-john
you'd instantly guess what comes next!