Director of Engineering / Stiúrthóir Innealtóireachta @gitlab. Formerly @storyful / @newscorp, @projectzebra & @shiftdock PGP: https://xitter.cf/t.co/5qyeYSIcZj
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So cool!
Let's try run Windows XP inside this tweet, tap to open pieter.com/xp/x
John Hope retweeted
It is so hard for people to get out of the notion that life is a zero-sum game. They think if one man benefits, another must lose. But in a free market, both people can benefit
— Milton Friedman
Phenomenal effort, well done 👏
I have spent the last few weeks building Public Purse Ireland.
Its aim is simple. List every line item of government expenditure with the supplier, description and the amount, starting with grants and purchase orders.
No fancy charts, no broad economic strokes, but just there in black and white.
The information is out there, scattered and hidden on the web. Public Purse brings it under one roof.
John Hope retweeted
I really wish these protesters would stop saying 'on behalf of the Irish people'.
They're speaking on their own behalf, as is their right.
Not for anyone else.
I think a lot about the Stripe CTFs. How much effort it must've taken to set them up. The level of invention (Gitcoin!). And how the long-tail has probably paid them back many times over the years.
Every clothing brand I like and genuinely click through is now using email click trackers that are immediately blocked on my laptop. The most counterintuitive software ever made.
Irish angel/seed pitch decks are just not ambitious enough on revenue. Everything else can look great then it's killed by "€10m ARR in FY29". I'm sure papers have been written on why this differs so much from the US.
Great to read that there will be a final installment of the Up! series this year: theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…
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@gitlab also signed the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter.
For most companies, software is core IP. How you manage it, and how you protect your business and customers against security, privacy, and competitive threats, is one of the most strategic decisions a company makes. That decision shouldn't be locked to one cloud or one model vendor.
GitLab is the only platform that's genuinely cloud neutral and model neutral. You decide where your code lives. You decide which model does the work.
That choice only holds up if the model market stays open. I think the future is a mix of models matched to the task, each tuned for the best price and performance for the customer. Open models keep that market honest. They drive real competition on performance and price, and they keep control in the customer's hands.
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-W…
I now get sent several unique GitLab Pages sites every single day. Dashboards, prototypes, internal tools. This morning's was a test efficiency tracker. Makes sense when you can design, build, and deploy any static site in minutes with a short, lazy prompt.
You can read What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen in a (busy) afternoon, and it's a good use of time!
A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses. ktvu.com/news/auto-glass-rep…
The Fin pivot will be studied. Unbelievable outcome - well done.
We’re excited to share that we just signed an agreement for @salesforce to acquire @fin_ai for ~$3.6B. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027.
Fin started as Intercom 15 years ago. We changed our name to cap our transformation just weeks ago. We were a darling of the SaaS era and invented so many of the patterns you see in software today. Nearly four years ago, in need of a reboot, we jumped on weeks-old modern LLMs to create and define the category we know as Customer Agents today.
Salesforce invented modern software and SaaS. And @benioff is like the final boss of tech founder CEOs. In seat for 27 years, he’s one of the last of his era. Still pushing, pivoting, placing big bets. It’s a privilege for @destraynor and I to get to partner with him and join forces with Salesforce upon close at this most fascinating time. And will be very fun to get their help bringing Fin to magnitudes more consumers.
To our customers: Over the past few years we’ve been shipping intensely. Including recently our groundbreaking model, Apex, and our paradigm-defining internal agent, Operator. With the resources of Salesforce this will only accelerate. And yet little will practically change. I’ll still be CEO, Des will still be running R&D, we’ll both still be committed to continuing to lead this category. Thank you very sincerely and deeply for your belief in us.
To all of our friends, our families, and our employees, past and present: While this is not the end, it is a major, pivotal, special, and emotional moment for us. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. For everything.
To my cofounders, my exec team: Look what we built. Four young lads with a dream and nothing to lose. And a home grown exec team who pulled off the greatest and arguably only late stage software company pivot to AI, and invented one of the most important categories in AI. Thank you for sticking through all of this with me.
And now, time to get back to work. See you at our next product launch in a couple weeks. (:
If GitLab's Wiki feature felt overly technical and limiting before, it's worth a second look. Over the past year the team have buried the git plumbing to make it genuinely approachable and shipped powerful features like Embedded Tables: docs.gitlab.com/releases/18/…
