GitLab has announced it will lay off approximately 14% of its workforce, around 350 employees, and withdraw from 22 countries or regions as part of a restructuring plan. This move aims to streamline management levels, reallocate resources, accelerate investment in underlying infrastructure, and respond to the surge in traffic driven by AI workflows. The company is undertaking a generational overhaul of Git to support a 100-fold scale of growth in the future and has collaborated with an AI lab to rebuild APIs optimized for intelligent agents. Meanwhile, GitLab has increased its R&D investment in AI orchestration tools, context layers, and governance tools. In the first quarter, GitLab reported revenue of $264 million, a 23% year-over-year increase, with a gross margin of 88%. The restructuring is expected to incur costs between $30 million and $35 million. This initiative reflects the shift in R&D paradigms in the AI era from relying on 'human scale' to 'machine scale,' heralding a technological transformation in global developer infrastructure to adapt to the age of intelligent agents.