Code Creation Group

The Code Creation Group is responsible for all product categories that fall under the Code Creation group of the AI Engineering organization.

Team Ownership

Features/capabilities Code Creation owns today:

Code suggestions: completion + generation
Code-related slash commands: /explain, /refactor, /tests, /fix
Repository X-Ray
Code suggestions context (e.g. open tabs) - partnered with Editor Extensions Group

Code Creation is also responsible for evaluations for each of these features which includes:

Creating datasets in LangSmith and registering them in the Datasets repository
Creating evaluators in Centralized Evaluation Framework
Running evaluations

About Code Suggestions

One of the main features we work on in the Code Creation group is Code Suggestions. Here is some quick information to get you started with Code Suggestions.

Code Suggestions Engineering Overview - Handbook technical overview of Code Suggestions
Code Suggestions Guide - Handbook development guide for engineers
Code Suggestions Quick Start - GitLab Documentation
Difference between Code Completion and Code Generation - YouTube
Code Suggestion Documentation - GitLab Documentation

A lot of the terms we use in this area sound similar and can be confusing at first. Here are the basic terms we use:

Code Creation: The group name and a collection of features relating to providing AI generated code
Code Suggestions: A feature within Code Creation that provides AI-generated code within an IDE
- Code Completion: A short AI-generated suggestion intended to complete an existing line or block of code
- Code Generation: A longer AI-generated suggestion intended to create entire functions, classes, code blocks, etc.
Duo Chat: Another feature that interacts with GitLab Duo Chat to write new code, refactor existing code, or scan code for vulnerabilities

If it helps, here are these terms in a diagram:

stateDiagram
    direction LR

    state "Code Creation" as creation
    state "Code Suggestions" as suggestions
    state "Code Completion" as completion
    state "Code Generation" as generation
    state "Duo Chat Features" as duo

    creation --> suggestions
    creation --> duo
    suggestions --> completion
    suggestions --> generation

Team Handles

Use this information to connect with the Code Creation group:

Category	Handle
GitLab Team Handle	@gitlab-org/code-creation/engineers
Slack Channel	#g_code_creation
Slack Handle (Engineers)	@code-creation-engs

Team Members

The following people are permanent members of the Code Creation Team:

Name	Role
Matt Nohr	Backend Engineering Manager, Code Creation
Allen Cook	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Emerald-Jayde Henao	Backend Engineer, Code Creation
James Fargher	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Jan Provaznik	Staff Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Jonathan Shobrook	Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Code Creation
Kinshuk Singh	Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Michael Usachenko	Senior Machine Learning Engine, Code Creation
Missy Davies	Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Omar Qunsul	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Pam Artiaga	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Shola Quadri	Associate Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Tian Gao	Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Vitali Tatarintev	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation
Wanderson Policarpo	Senior Backend Engineer, Code Creation

You can reach the whole team on GitLab issues/MRs by using the @code-creation-team handle.

Stable Counterparts

The following members of other functional teams are our stable counterparts:

Category	Counterpart
Product Manager	Jordan Janes
Technical Writing	Steve Cawood
UX	TBD
Support	TBD
AppSec	TBD

Product Categories: Code Creation
Direction: Code Suggestion Direction

Code Suggestion Dashboards

Code Suggestions Metrics (README) - usage, acceptance rate, latency, error rates, etc (Tableau)
General Metric Reporting - can find code suggestions rate limiting, X-Ray usage, etc (Tableau)
Log Visualization Dashboard - another view of latency, response codes, number of requests, etc (Kibana)
Code suggestions latency: Breakdown of server-side latency for code suggestions (Kibana)
X-Ray Dependency Parsing Errors Dashboard: Breakdown of parsing errors triggered by X-Ray dependency scanning (Kibana)
Metrics Dashboard (Grafana)
Error Budget (Grafana)