Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities

Post by bitL » Thu, May 04, 2023, 2:55 PM UTC

jacooper wrote: post #71

bitL wrote: post #41

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.

There's no point in migrating to avoid ai training, OpenAI is going to train on every line of code out there, no matter which platform.

Post by e12e » Thu, May 04, 2023, 3:08 PM UTC

sofixa wrote: post #51

visarga wrote: 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.

First, their UI and UX are very different. Azure is by far the worst (as in pretty much all categories) - even their docs suck, with random broken links (even the links to switch the language of the exemple code) and very weird naming schemes, let alone the actual cloud UI. GCP and AWS are quite decent (for AWS you need to know a bit about how they organise things or use the search, but still). > How do you find a VM…

Post by gen220 » Thu, May 04, 2023, 3:16 PM UTC

dcchambers wrote: post #73

O5vYtytb wrote: post #63

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.

I fear this is going to be the cause of the slow death of gitlab. They over-promised on far too many features and have underdelivered with many half baked products and MVPs that have been left to rot. I like the product and the company but they clearly tried to do too much in order to gain market share. GitHub needs competition so it would be great for GitLab to thrive, but the state of the product worries me.

Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Thu, May 04, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

atonse wrote: post #36

qumpis wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does repo being on github have to do with copilot? Free copilot licenses for OSS?

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.

Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Thu, May 04, 2023, 4:11 PM UTC

suchar wrote: post #80

O5vYtytb wrote: post #63

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