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Re: Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities

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I think my productivity would 2x or 3x if gitlab would work on fixing issues with core features such as task planning. There's a lot of minimum viable features that never got improved, especially for those of us on the premium tier. AI sound cool but at this point I'm just expecting another half baked feature that checks boxes for executives to justify purchasing it.

Yup, it's "funny" that even basic functionality doesn't work as expected: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/350662 I encounter this issue pretty often and it makes code review experience miserable. It's not blocking any work, but it is frustrating enough that for any new project I would try to avoid using Gitlab

Hey - I'm the PM for our Code Review group. Sorry to see you're running in to that issue, it's been a real challenge for us. If you're running in to it pretty often, it'd be great if you could provide some details on what steps you're taking (maybe even record a video) to help us figure out what's going on. For lots of bugs, the hardest thing for us to do is reproduce them... so if you've got a reliable way to do that, it really helps us prioritize things to fix.

Re: Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, it's "funny" that even basic functionality doesn't work as expected: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/350662 I encounter this issue pretty often and it makes code review experience miserable. It's not blocking any work, but it is frustrating enough that for any new project I would try to avoid using Gitlab

Hey - I'm the PM for our Code Review group. Sorry to see you're running in to that issue, it's been a real challenge for us. If you're running in to it pretty often, it'd be great if you could provide some details on what steps you're taking (maybe even record a video) to help us figure out what's going on. For lots of bugs, the hardest thing for us to do is reproduce them... so if you've got a reliable way to do tha…

> it'd be great if you could provide some details on what steps you're taking (maybe even record a video) to help us figure out what's going on

The comment you're replying to has a link to an issue which includes a video and a test project.

Re: Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities

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> GitLab plans to improve its customers' DevSecOps workflow efficiency by 10x, by applying AI-assisted workflows I'm also planning to improve my fitness by 10x from tomorrow. Using AI obviously! But today let me eat this pizza

You have the right level of cynicism, but you should instead direct it at the field of DevSecOps as a whole. 98% of "SecOps" is utterly pointless boxchecking for ass-covering security certifications which waste immense amounts of time and enforce nothing meaningful. You could ABSOLUTELY 10x workflow efficiency there by plumbing the codebase for questions like: "What are all the OSS libraries you use, and the licenses…

Do you really need AI for that or a grep? Lol

Re: Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities

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I think my productivity would 2x or 3x if gitlab would work on fixing issues with core features such as task planning. There's a lot of minimum viable features that never got improved, especially for those of us on the premium tier. AI sound cool but at this point I'm just expecting another half baked feature that checks boxes for executives to justify purchasing it.

GitLab task planning is so terrible we had to give up on it and move to Linear. It's like night and day. I can create ten tickets in Linear in the time it takes me to open the right GitLab board. The good thing is that this has probably saved us money as now fewer people need GitLab licenses.

Re: Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities

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post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey - I'm the PM for our Code Review group. Sorry to see you're running in to that issue, it's been a real challenge for us. If you're running in to it pretty often, it'd be great if you could provide some details on what steps you're taking (maybe even record a video) to help us figure out what's going on. For lots of bugs, the hardest thing for us to do is reproduce them... so if you've got a reliable way to do tha…

> it'd be great if you could provide some details on what steps you're taking (maybe even record a video) to help us figure out what's going on The comment you're replying to has a link to an issue which includes a video and a test project.

The user you are replying to has stated that the problem has not yet been made reproducible in the issue you are referring to.

Re: Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities

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post #18

Maybe GCP, Azure and AWS could pull together the text to train a language model to tell us how to deal with their fucking stupid UIs and arcane terminology. I dread having to use their cloud portals. How do you find a VM by IP address in Azure? that kind of thing.

Use the APIs

That's very unpleasant. I'd love a chatbot that will ask me what I want to do. A Copilot for Cloud.

Re: Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities

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> GitLab plans to improve its customers' DevSecOps workflow efficiency by 10x, by applying AI-assisted workflows I'm also planning to improve my fitness by 10x from tomorrow. Using AI obviously! But today let me eat this pizza

Indeed - what a crock of shit. And another reason not to trust GitLab.

Re: Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities

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post #45

Gitlab should stick to its lane and finish its already huge surface area of its products instead of chasing the AI hype. Sid…

Yup, GitLab features are actually fairly good (much better than GitHub IMHO). By far the biggest thing I would ask for is polish. Flesh out existing features, fix bugs, improve UX flows and improve performance.

GitLab team member here. Thanks for your feedback - depth over breadth is a guiding principle for product investments in 2023 (FY24) [0]

Bug fixes, UX improvements and performance improvements are added to the monthly release blog post, for example GitLab 15.11 [1] - in case you want to follow these updates more closely.

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#fiscal-year-guiding-prin...

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2023/04/22/gitlab-15-11-re...

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