I think selling them as an automated engineer is a little over the top at the moment
Indeed. Amazon originally advertised CodeGuru as being "like having a distinguished engineer on call, 24x7".[^1] That became a punchline at work for a good while.
I can definitely see the value of a tool that helps identify issues and suggest fixes for stuff beyond your typical linter, though. In theory, getting that stuff out of the way could make for more meaningful human reviews. (Just don't overpromise what it can reasonably do.)
As it stands today, Ellipsis isn't sold as an AI software engineer.
One of our largest learnings is that state of the art LLM's aren't good enough to write code autonomously, but they are good enough to be helpful during code review.
Right, I stand corrected, I think I confused the branding of other competing products. I remember really liking the fact that ellipsis does _not_ sell itself as a developer. I’ll edit my comment to reflect that. :)
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Indeed. Amazon originally advertised CodeGuru as being "like having a distinguished engineer on call, 24x7".[^1] That became a punchline at work for a good while.
I can definitely see the value of a tool that helps identify issues and suggest fixes for stuff beyond your typical linter, though. In theory, getting that stuff out of the way could make for more meaningful human reviews. (Just don't overpromise what it can reasonably do.)
[^1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20191203185853/https://aws.amazo...
As it stands today, Ellipsis isn't sold as an AI software engineer.
One of our largest learnings is that state of the art LLM's aren't good enough to write code autonomously, but they are good enough to be helpful during code review.
Right, I stand corrected, I think I confused the branding of other competing products. I remember really liking the fact that ellipsis does _not_ sell itself as a developer. I’ll edit my comment to reflect that. :)