GitLab AI Fireside Chat Summary

GitLab recently hosted a fireside chat to introduce their AI-assisted features available for their customers on gitlab.com. The company plans to infuse AI throughout the software development lifecycle by incorporating it into their comprehensive enterprise DevSecOps platform. During the chat, the company discussed AI-assisted features focused on three personas - development, security, and operations teams.

AI for Developer Teams

• Code Suggestions: Allows developers to write code more efficiently by viewing code suggestions as they type.
• Suggested Reviewers: Helps developers select the best reviewers for their code changes.
• Summarize MR Changes: Provides a summary of code changes for the merge request.
• Summarize My MR Review: Provides a summary of a developer's review comments.

AI for Security and Operations

• Explain This Vulnerability: Helps developers remediate vulnerabilities more efficiently and uplevel their skills to write more secure code.
• Generate Tests in MRs: Automatically generates tests to verify code changes before merging.
• Explain This Code: Provides an explanation of code and how it works.
• GitLab Chat: Integrates with chat platforms to enable collaboration.
• Value Stream Analytics: Provides insights into development and delivery processes to improve them.

GitLab states that these capabilities are just the beginning of many features the company is working on to provide its customers AI-assisted features across their DevSecOps platform. Through the year, the company intends to ship many capabilities leveraging generative AI. Their team showcases how they're infusing AI/ML into GitLab through their ongoing blog series.