This blog is the latest post in an ongoing series about GitLab’s journey to build and integrate AI/ML into our DevSecOps platform. The first blog post can be found here. Throughout the series, we’ll feature blogs from our product, engineering, and UX teams to showcase how we’re infusing AI/ML into GitLab.
During the course of reviewing a merge request, you may sometimes leave many comments. Those comments may have specific information about things that need to be changed, or context for why you're leaving feedback on the proposed changes. If you've left a lot of comments, it might be hard to remember everything you've said and what the author should look at to resolve your feedback.
In a rapid prototype, Stanislav Lashmanov, Senior Frontend Engineeer for our Code Review Group, used AI/ML to summarize your merge request review when submitting your review. He developed a new AI action that provides a summary, and allows you to edit or revise prior to submitting the review:
Providing authors with these review summaries allows them to quickly understand the feedback and scope of revisions required without the need to process the entire review. This helps to speed up the cycle time for teams as they work through review rounds in merge requests.
Iterating on AI/ML features
While just an experiment today, we are iterating on how to effectively bring features like this to our customers. We'll continue to refine the type of review feedback we provide, and then look at how we can better integrate these summaries in to the review cycle. You can see some of our design efforts we've been exploring with the summarizing merge request changes feature to get an idea of our possible direction.
This experiment is just the start of the ways we're infusing GitLab with AI/ML capabilities to help GitLab users become more efficient and effective at their jobs. We are looking across the software development lifecycle for painful and time-consuming tasks that are ideal for AI-assisted features. We'll continue to share these demos throughout this blog series.
Interested in using these AI-generated features? Join our waitlist and share your ideas.
Continue reading our "AI/ML in DevSecOps" series.
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