If they're asking you to do more for less pay and with fewer coworkers to help, don't feel bad if the company code turns into unmaintainable, unintelligible garbage. They can't really stop you. It's just AI. Something is going to have to give.

Every IC ought to use the present day as the opportunity to build a nimble competitor to their old employer (or whatever industry incumbents they want).

They're literally setting themselves up for this.

Which I wonder if it will end with closing up their own public Gitlab instance for their bugs/features, their open operations manual and the generally transparent culture that for example brought us the live streamed fix of the infamous "I dropped the database" situation.

Well, actually looks like the live stream was made already private, but I don't know when, I just discovered it now: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5rfvpd/live_strea...

I expect the operations manual, employee handbook, internal documentation like that will be first to go.

I wouldn't necessarily expect any public gitlab instances to go.