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Re: Gitlab Duo

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Anyone using this? We use a self-hosted Gitlab for 5 years now and had to upgrade to premium after they killed the basic version. Now I would essentially have to double my spending (again) for this new feature.

Re: Gitlab Duo

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Anyone using this? We use a self-hosted Gitlab for 5 years now and had to upgrade to premium after they killed the basic version. Now I would essentially have to double my spending (again) for this new feature.

> Now I would essentially have to double my spending (again) for this new feature.

I guess either you believe that this AI feature is worth the new prices, or you don't. I don't.

> We use a self-hosted Gitlab for 5 years now and had to upgrade to premium after they killed the basic version.

Why not self-hosting an instance of Forgejo?

Re: Gitlab Duo

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post #3

Anyone using this? We use a self-hosted Gitlab for 5 years now and had to upgrade to premium after they killed the basic version. Now I would essentially have to double my spending (again) for this new feature.

> Now I would essentially have to double my spending (again) for this new feature. I guess either you believe that this AI feature is worth the new prices, or you don't. I don't. > We use a self-hosted Gitlab for 5 years now and had to upgrade to premium after they killed the basic version. Why not self-hosting an instance of Forgejo?

Yes, Forgejo would be an alternative if we really would need to switch. GitLab pricing is ok for us, not great, not terrible for a small team of 6 devs...

Re: Gitlab Duo

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Anyone using this? We use a self-hosted Gitlab for 5 years now and had to upgrade to premium after they killed the basic version. Now I would essentially have to double my spending (again) for this new feature.

Considering they still use Claude 2 as the model for many features, I'd pass. Now, if they upgraded to Claude 3, on the other hand... I would still go with Codeium[1] and the Claude 3 API.

[1]: Which, to be fair, has fewer features.

Re: Gitlab Duo

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Anyone using this? We use a self-hosted Gitlab for 5 years now and had to upgrade to premium after they killed the basic version. Now I would essentially have to double my spending (again) for this new feature.

My team recently paid for this on self-hosted GitLab ultimate. I would not suggest this for self-hosted. We've been having issues that seem to be related to self-hosting that are requiring a lot of effort from our System Admins to work through with GitLab support.

Separate from that, there don't appear to be any benefits to having it "integrated" into GitLab. I'm assuming we'll switch to another tool shortly.

Re: Gitlab Duo

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I'm guessing this has come up (again?) now because there has been a "General Availability" in the new 16.11 where it's been apparently automatically turned on in our internal Premium instance (and individual users getting nagged about using it after the upgrade). For "Free":

> The GitLab Duo Chat is part of GitLab Duo Pro. To ease the transition for Chat beta users who have yet to purchase GitLab Duo Pro, Duo Chat will remain available to existing Premium and Ultimate customers (without the add-on) for a short period of time. We will announce when access will be restricted to Duo Pro subscribers at a later date.

At least one of our admins interpreted their pinky-promise policy page as something binding; at least from the communications we were sent it seems very hard to verify exactly what they are sending over or protections they've put in place.

It's 2024, not putting that clearly front-and-centre is a deliberate choice.

Re: Gitlab Duo

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post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Now I would essentially have to double my spending (again) for this new feature. I guess either you believe that this AI feature is worth the new prices, or you don't. I don't. > We use a self-hosted Gitlab for 5 years now and had to upgrade to premium after they killed the basic version. Why not self-hosting an instance of Forgejo?

Yes, Forgejo would be an alternative if we really would need to switch. GitLab pricing is ok for us, not great, not terrible for a small team of 6 devs...

The pricing of the GitLab has changed so many times in the past years and free tier has changed as well. It has made GitLab so unpredictable that I had to switch away.

Someone could say that enshittification is on the way.

Re: Gitlab Duo

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> Ship more secure software faster withAI throughout the entire software development lifecycle

Is this a typo or some sophisticated marketing?

edit- seems to only be a bug in Firefox.

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