Kayode Omotosho
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Shares of devSecOps platform provider GitLab (NASDAQ:GTLB) fell 6.7% in the morning session after Guggenheim downgraded its rating on the stock to Neutral from Buy, citing the risk of disruption from artificial intelligence. The analyst noted that GitLab faced a high risk of AI making its business model less relevant.
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GitLab’s shares are extremely volatile and have had 35 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.
The previous big move we wrote about was about 21 hours ago when the stock dropped 6.6% on the news that Anthropic announced Managed Agents, a hosted service for long-running AI tasks.
Investors reacted to the potential disruption of existing SaaS business models, as these agents continued to pose a threat to expensive, seat-based enterprise software with more efficient, autonomous AI infrastructure. Managed agents are specialized AI systems that can independently execute multi-step, long-duration tasks.
Unlike standard AI chatbots or basic APIs that require constant human prompting, managed agents feature durable states and resumable workflows, allowing them to pause and restart without losing progress. While traditional software products require manual input for every action, these agents use “policy-guarded tools” to interact with digital environments, making them autonomous workers rather than just passive tools.
GitLab is down 45.1% since the beginning of the year, and at $19.85 per share, it is trading 62.8% below its 52-week high of $53.43 from May 2025. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of GitLab’s shares at the IPO in October 2021 would now be looking at an investment worth $191.07.
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