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“GitLab Shares Slide as “Death of Human Coding” Narrative Gains Steam” 🚨🚨🚨

Shares of GitLab ($GTLB) fell sharply Wednesday, dropping 6.7% to $24.91, after the company issued underwhelming guidance despite delivering solid fourth-quarter results. While the financials weren’t disastrous, investors appear far more focused on a bigger, more existential concern: the accelerating rise of AI-driven coding.

Over the past year, GitLab’s stock has plunged roughly 60%, reflecting growing anxiety that artificial intelligence could dramatically reshape — and potentially shrink — the market for traditional software development tools. GitLab’s platform has long served human programmers with code repositories, DevOps tools, and collaborative workflows. But as AI coding assistants grow more capable, some investors fear there may simply be fewer developers relying on such services in the future.

Tools like AI-powered coding agents are rapidly improving, automating tasks that once required experienced engineers. Adding to the pressure, a recent report from The Information revealed that OpenAI is developing a competing platform to GitHub — the Microsoft-owned service often compared to GitLab. While GitLab and GitHub are separate companies, they operate in overlapping markets centered on code hosting and collaborative development.

The broader concern isn’t just competition — it’s structural change. Unlike previous tech booms, where programmers were largely shielded from the disruption their innovations caused, the AI surge may directly impact the coding workforce itself. If AI systems can autonomously generate, test, and deploy software, the demand for human developers could decline.

That said, predictions of the complete “death” of human coders may be premature. Software development still requires oversight, architecture design, security review, and business alignment — areas where human expertise remains critical. However, even a modest reduction in required headcount could meaningfully alter the economics of platforms built around large developer communities.

For GitLab, the challenge now is proving it can adapt — integrating AI into its own ecosystem and positioning itself as a productivity multiplier rather than a relic of a pre-AI development model.

The AI revolution may not eliminate coders entirely — but it is clearly redefining their role. And the market is already pricing in that shift.