https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

GitLab CEO Bill Staples announced a major company restructuring — dubbed "Act 2" — involving workforce reductions, a flatter org structure, and a strategic pivot toward the agentic AI era, with plans to rebuild the platform for machine-scale workloads. The restructure includes reducing the number of operating countries by up to 30%, removing management layers, reorganizing R&D into roughly 60 smaller teams, and rewiring internal processes with AI agents