Kiss of death for Gitlab? A temporary bump in profits while being technically assimilated by Google due to a significant portion of profits being directly dependent on Google? Now people who don't want to contribute to Microsoft training data sets on Github and escaped to Gitlab will be forced to contribute to Google's training data or forced to migrate elsewhere.
Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities
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#42Gitlab cannot compete alone with Github copilot and their other AI offerings, so they bring in Google. Smart, if obvious, move.
Gitlab got their nice IPO pop. At this point I imagine that they would love for Amazon or Google to buy them at a modest premium. As a standalone company, they can't unlock the same synergies that Microsoft/Github can. It looks like they're picking their suitor now. Google could certainly take a page from the Nadella playbook and use them to bolster their third place cloud offerings. GCP needs an ecosystem of develop…
Gitlab has large overlap with bitbucket / jira. Likely more useful for Atlassian to buy Gitlab.
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#43Prediction: Gitlab will be acquired by Google.
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#44Feels like AI is prompting some sort of tech consolidation pattern getting ready for the "next phase". But there are risks associated with an ever-narrowing set of tech providers, e.g., if this goes in the direction of enhancing lock-in and/or your tech provider becoming your competitor.
The more general (and in some sense gratuitous and unnecessary) risk is the carte-blanche of big tech to pursue any and all business models that are digitally based (e.g. adtech) in any combination they see fit.
Creating and enforcing clear rules about who does what with what responsibilities and liabilities etc would help explore that exciting but also very risky AI enabled "next phase" of IT without constantly second guessing what is really going on and what disasters it might be stoking...
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#45Gitlab should stick to its lane and finish its already huge surface area of its products instead of chasing the AI hype. Sid…
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#46Prediction: Gitlab will be acquired by Google.
I'm not even sure Google needs to spend the additional ~4B that they need to acquire Gitlab fully (they own a stake already), if Gitlab already agrees to let them train on their data.
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#47> GitLab plans to improve its customers' DevSecOps workflow efficiency by 10x, by applying AI-assisted workflows How about GitLab fix the most elemental mistakes they have made with the k8s operator for GitLab runner instead of... whatever the hell this is?
GitLab team member here. Thanks for your feedback. I'm curious about what kind of mistakes were made with the Kubernetes Operator [0]? Maybe there are open issues to learn more about your concerns? Thanks!
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Copilot, Issues and Actions, all symptoms that GitHub is forging ahead and building features that are well thought out and well integrated. Ironically, CI/CD and issues being well integrated were the reasons we switched to GitLab in the first place. But since then we stopped using issues. CoPilot X will help write PR descriptions, some code review, etc. All those things are on top of just hosting the repo.
GitLab team member here. We published a blog post[0] yesterday that provides an overview of some features you may be interested in: Code Suggestions, Summarize MR Changes, Summarize My MR Review, and Explain this Code. You can find more information about these features via the links from the blog. 0 - https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/05/03/gitlab-ai-assisted-...
Thank you! Will check it out.
One thing I will say is that I notice lately that GitLab seems to throw in the word DevSecOps everywhere these days almost as if an exec has ordered everyone to use it a minimum of 20 times a day. It feels like the marketing people are pushing some kind of buzzword quota.
Nonetheless, will keep an eye on these features before our renewal cycle in September.
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#49> GitLab is working with Google Cloud because of its strong commitment to privacy Right. I guess they'll also deal with Qualcomm for their strong commitment to openness, and Russia for its strong commitment to democracy.
That's a bit unfair, you shouldn't confuse Google (the b2c services that collect a ton of user data to deliver ads) and Google Cloud Platform.
GCP is genuinely quite open. Whereas AWS have the habit of creating proprietary services/making proprietary changes to open source stuff, a lot of what GCP does is based on open source and open standards, done in public, which they themselves push for. Some of their flagship services such as GKE and Cloud Run, their Service Mesh stuff, Cloud Build, etc. run on software open sourced by Google. Of course that's not always the case - BigQuery is fully proprietary, but it's much better than competitor clouds that release the bare minimum publicly to allow consumption, but don't actually make it possible to do the same thing as GCP on your own outside of their environment.
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#50Prediction: Gitlab will be acquired by Google.
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