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Show HN: Release AI – Talk to Your Infrastructure

143 points by dgiffin 3y ago

Hello, Hacker News! I'm David, cofounder of Release (YCW20). Introducing Release AI, a tool designed to empower users with instant access to DevOps expertise, all without monopolizing the valuable time of our experts. Developed with the developer and engineer community in mind, Release AI takes the power of OpenAI's cutting-edge GPT-4 public LLM and augments it with DevOps knowledge. In its initial phase, Release AI offers "read-only" access to both AWS and Kubernetes. This means you can engage in insightful conversations with your AWS account and K8s infrastructure effortlessly. Looking ahead, our roadmap includes plans to integrate more tools for commonly used systems. This will enable you to automate an even broader array of your daily tasks. If you would like more info you can check-out our launch YC (it has more details, screen casts): https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JI1-release-ai-talk-to-your-infrastructure https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JI1-release-ai-talk-to-... Our quickstart guide: https://docs.release.com/release-ai/quickstart https://docs.release.com/release-ai/quickstart Signup and use it: https://beta.release.com/ai/register https://beta.release.com/ai/register Please give it a try! We would love your feedback as we are enhancing Release AI, reach out to us with any feature requests or crazy ideas that Release AI could do for you. Feel free to email me at david@release.com or leave a comment, looking forward to chatting with you. Join the conversation in our Slack community and discover the future of DevOps with Release AI!

samstave 3y ago
Love it. Funny, while I was reading the site, I was wondering if you could build crons on it - and that was the last example :-) Some cool things I'd like to try would be: "Create an alert whenever [EVENT] happens and contact [whomever]" "Give me a system summary every morning at 9:15 AM called "Stand-up Status" "Summarize all events for [OBJECT] each [TIME PERIOD] and send a report daily at X" "Give the CFO a daily spend report each morning" - Can it do things like this?
- NickBusey 3y ago
  Release engineer here. With the exception of the first example (I'm not sure how good it would be at event monitoring like that, though we're absolutely going to try it out!), I think all of these should work. We've tested the daily spend report already. Give it a shot and let us know how it works for you!
  - samstave 3y ago
    For the first one, maybe an Intrusion Detection "Alert me anytime someon attempts to login to [SENSITIVE SYSTEM] - Can this do SPLUNK like log analytics? "Give me a table of all activity of [TYPE] in [THESE LOGS/SYSTEMS]" (for whatever metric youre tracking) "Give me a cron of uptime every hour for [system, site, cluster, whatever]" "create a status page for critical systems A B C X Y Z" -- I dont have any AWS infra to throw this at right now - but I do love this As a Dir. Of DevOps in my career - these were very common questions thrown at me on the regular from PMs, C-suite, engineering etc... So if this were a self-service query portal for teams with permissions/roles on what sort of questions could be asked from other teams that would be cool. this is read only? It cant deploy/launch/buy services can it?
    - NickBusey 3y ago
      Since this is currently talking to AWS and k8s directly, unless you are setup in a way that would let AWS know about the intrusion detection, then this is likely out of scope for now. Similar to the logs/systems access. If AWS or k8s can read the logs, there is a chance we can crunch them, if they are in a separate logging platform, we would currently be unable to fetch that information. Great ideas for future features though! It is currently read only yes.
    - lmeyerov 3y ago
      re:splunk (and opensearch, databricks, etc), we're already doing those with louie.ai and running early self-hosted + saas cohorts. Your questions are very much the type we'd interested in exploring with you! Feel free to signup on our early access program on the site or reach out directly (leo@graphistry.com).
Michelangelo11 3y ago
I like the idea, but how do you handle hallucinations? E.g. when the user asks about their AWS bill, how can they be sure the numbers they get are accurate?
- worldsayshi 3y ago
  Would be good if any user interface that uses these kinds of llm solutions always include the raw data from the backing services when asked for. Like how in chatgpt you can open and inspect its interaction with a plugin.
  - regiswilson 3y ago
    Release engineer here. You can do a bunch of cool tricks like go into `/expert` mode and view all the details. Join our slack workspace (https://release-ai.slack.com https://release-ai.slack.com) and we have tonnes more tricks and techniques to share!
- regiswilson 3y ago
  Release engineer here. That's an excellent question, and we worry about it all the time. The AI "seems" authoritative, but it can't even add 1+1 sometimes :crying-emoji:. We've tried to engineer the prompts and tooling so that it will say "I don't know" if it doesn't know. But we've still seen it say some crazy things, like "Your cluster is fine" when it clearly wasn't. :tounge-sticking-out-emoji: I guess the only real answer is you have to trust but verify.
  - Michelangelo11 3y ago
    Thanks for the answer. Yeah, that's pretty much what I expected would be the case. Speaking as another dev in the AI space, it seems like reliability and consistency are the hardest issues when it comes to making AI genuinely useful in production vs. just a neat toy, and there's no stock solution.
  - tommy_mcclung 3y ago
    Tommy, CEO here. We also have some ideas on reporting hallucinations and feeding wrong answers back into the prompts automatically to help reduce instances of hallucinations. We have a few other ideas and would welcome any ideas folks have to help with this problem.
tikkun 3y ago
FYI you may want to add something to the homepage to clarify - I was confused initially, because I clicked through to the Launch YC post, and then I clicked the URL at the top and saw the homepage, which talked about Environments as a Service rather than 'talking to your infra'.
- regiswilson 3y ago
  Release engineer here, we see this as complementary to environments. When you spin up your infrastructure and environments using our service, how do you interact with them? How do you see what is happening? How can you (easily, as a lay person) figure out how to diagnose, maybe even fix, problems? That is the idea, hope you like it.
- tommy_mcclung 3y ago
  Done
jakozaur 3y ago
I like the concept, but would love to hear if it's a feature or some long-term product vision. It looks like the main business is Environment as a Service. Do you see ReleaseAI as a new product? Is it related to Env as a service? Or maybe you are considering to pivot?
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- tommy_mcclung 3y ago
  Tommy, CEO here. We believe it is incredibly complimentary to our core service. What we've found in building Release through our support channels is we spend a tremendous amount of time consulting with the DevOps teams of our customers answering questions like what can be answered with ReleaseAI. It helps us help ourselves and our customers. In the long run we see this being integrated into our core product in really interesting ways as well. There will always be a standalone version.
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nodesocket 3y ago
Congratulations on the launch. I own and run a DevOps consulting company and being able to ask AWS billing questions or create CloudWatch notifications in human language is gonna be a game changer. Looking forward to using and following Releases progress. The .com domain name must have cost a fortune. lol
whalesalad 3y ago
"how much money am i wasting per minute on this huge disk just to achieve high iops?"
- regiswilson 3y ago
  Relase AI Bot: "Try switching to gp3, you will save money and likely see a performance boost!"
swozey 3y ago
You're basically coming for my job as an SRE/Platarch but great documentation you've covered a lot of scenarios and in a pretty thorough manner. You should figure out a way to import current infra state and control it from your dashboard and build off of that. That'd be really interesting. Like, take over a tfstate file or whatever pulumi/cdk uses. And definitely just build off of aws/gcp/azure/oracle without IAC like terraformer does.
- regiswilson 3y ago
  Release engineer here. I believe you have hit on some of the ideas we've certainly discussed way down the road (or sooner than you'd think?). For example, can we inform the AI about your existing infrastructure patterns, tooling, configs, etc. and then ask it to "suggest best practices", "compare to security and compliance policies", "improve" it, "analyse optimisations", "identify unused/overprovisioned pieces", etc. etc.!
  - swozey 3y ago
    I'll throw you a big bone, I just cut our nearly $million/month aws infra costs down 45% by switching from x86 to arm64. So factor that in for sure. I was hoping for 15-25%.
    - regiswilson 3y ago
      Fantastic, we've already begun switching RDS instances to Arm64 (simple, easy, and effective), but still haven't cracked (yet) building for Arm64 compute containers in a safe and effective way. I love it!
      - Ocha 3y ago
        What about arm64 makes building containers in a safe and effective way harder compared to x86?
        neduma 3y ago
itsderek23 3y ago
Nice work! I'm working on a similar standalone DevOps AI Agent (OpsTower.ai). This post shows how the agent is structured and how it performs against a 40 question evaluation dataset: https://www.opstower.ai/2023-evaluating-ai-agents/ https://www.opstower.ai/2023-evaluating-ai-agents/
- regiswilson 3y ago
  That's an impressive article and a lot of good work put into it!
halfba 3y ago
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bfeynman 3y ago
... You seriously just tell people to deploy a stack with your IAM role that "has the least permissions possible" good luck lol. Another thin wrapper around open-ai that doesn't even do the heavy lifting (deploying a secure and trusted authenticated role to access resources that can be easily audited etc)
- cddotdotslash 3y ago
  For what it’s worth, literally every vendor that operates in its customers’ AWS accounts does this. Create a cross account role, trust the vendor’s account, and give it read only permissions (although don’t use the built in “read only” role since that includes access to things like S3 objects.
  - baq 3y ago
    At my current job I can trigger a pipeline to deploy a complex set of cloud formation stacks but my account doesn’t have access to logs of those deployments. Devops!
- regiswilson 3y ago
  Release engineer here. You can pretty easily audit the policy we use (Read-Only) and you can also add a permissions boundary if you want. We would love to get any feedback and improvements you can offer if you are inclined. We have a slack workspace users can join, check it out. https://release-ai.slack.com https://release-ai.slack.com
welder 3y ago
"Hello database, why are you slow?" /s Serious feedback: * Support Digital Ocean (currently only AWS supported) * Even read-only access is scary... it's not clear if that means you have access to my sensitive user data or just the infra metadata. Normally I would just include relevant info about my AWS infra in my prompt... how is this better than that?
- regiswilson 3y ago
  Release engineer here. - Support Digital Ocean: We are always looking to add more integrations! - Read-only access to user data: You are welcome to check on the policy and/or adjust it. We default in the recommended case to Read-Only, but you can improve on that with a permissions boundary - How is it better than gathering output from AWS, copy/pasting it into a browser, reading the answer and copy/pasting back into terminal? Well, it's all in one place and it allows a tighter loop between gathering, analysing, and giving responses in one place. It gives lay people better access to data they might not know how to or be able to access, and it gives advanced users smoother, tighter loops on data and access they might already have. Hopefully that gives you some ideas.
- throwaway290 3y ago
  "Hello AWS, why is there this subnet and who added it?" I'm seriously curious how is asking a chatbot better than looking at a well designed diagram...
  - loa_in_ 3y ago
    You're very lucky if there's an up to date diagram and you got confidence in it's correctness.
    - throwaway290 3y ago
      Like a hand-made diagram? That's a blast from the past... I mean a diagram generated directly from your actual infra using the same APIs as the chatbot
artursapek 3y ago
does your entire business depend on the OpenAI API? what happens if they close it down?
- regiswilson 3y ago
  Release engineer here. No, this tool merely complements our core offerings and also has some use as a standalone tool. We can currently use any of the AI API offerings that are compatible; OpenAI is the one that is most common though. If they shut it down, a lot of people would have to migrate to a different provider but our tool could still work.
  - artursapek 3y ago
    cool thanks for the reply
temp9988109 3y ago
Looks cool! A bit hesitant to try it out, though. Can you talk a bit about your privacy and security practices? Do you (or do you plan to) use customer data (or prompts/results) for training? Do you ever read any of the customer's AWS data beyond what's strictly necessary for the functionality of the tool? What data do you retain? I looked at your privacy policy but it's pretty generic.
- maccard 3y ago
  I do the infra from our company. I _want_ them to train on our infra and everyone else's infra and to tell me what actually works and will solve my problem, not what my account manager recommends because AWS approve it. That's basically the value add of the tool.
  - tommy_mcclung 3y ago
    Love this.
  - samstave 3y ago
    Exactly. It would be interesting if just like an AI coding assistant, this would be a DevOPs/SRE/Infra assistant, whereby you can also just do your regular CI/CD/deployments/whatever - and have it make recommendations on caveats based on other architectures, or such. e.g. "describe examples for an architecture to accomplish X" and it spits out some examples - then you can choose, and save these "Infra-Prompts" and then later say "generate a new sand-box based on X and connect it to such-and-such and notify USERA when their environment is available, include a status page, and alert cron and a costing line in the daily CFO report" etc
    - maccard 3y ago
      Couldn't agree more. Imagine if it could look at all the other 30-50 person companies who are running a SAAS and say "teams like yours use ECS + Fargate instead of Kubernetes" (as an example)
      - 3y ago
annika88 3y ago
Can't wait to try it!
dgiffin 3y ago
Thanks for all of the feedback. I would love to get everyones ideas on what they would want Release AI to do for them. Please reply in the comments.
- BrandonWatson 3y ago
  I've worked with Dave before. He will in fact implement ask the things in a very short period of time. We used to talk about him as the master of spinning developer plates.
classified 3y ago
Sorry, Dave, I cannot allow you to do that.
mentos 3y ago
Really curious to know what led you to this project? When ChatGPT4 released did Bella start choking in your head with all of these possibilities?
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  What is Bella a reference to?
- tommy_mcclung 3y ago
  We spend a ton of time working directly with DevOps teams of our customers, helping them in using Release, but also just a lot of questions related to their infrastructure and AWS/GCP. We have some crazy good Integration Engineers that field a lot of this and we thought maybe AI could help free them up and scale That’s what sent us down this path.
willsmith72 3y ago
Can i not use it without paying? 16:20:50 You: tell me about my infra 16:20:55 Error: Unexpected Error: err=Exception('got 400 from Release API for https://api.release.com/accounts/x/cloud_integrations https://api.release.com/accounts/x/cloud_integrations'), type(err)=<class 'Exception'> Trace Id: 3f448f09-9cdd-489a-b59d-34f1fb03e3e3 16:21:10 You: what kind of databases am i using? 16:21:15 Error: Unexpected Error: err=Exception('got 400 from Release API for https://api.release.com/accounts/x/cloud_integrations https://api.release.com/accounts/x/cloud_integrations'), type(err)=<class 'Exception'> Trace Id: 8d173a36-fd0a-42f6-b62d-0a4721423301
- NickBusey 3y ago
  You can, sorry about that! This should be fixed now. If you have any other problems please hop in the slack or shoot us an email! https://join.slack.com/t/release-ai/shared_invite/zt-20dxgp2o0-ePCXzsag6l8_i4HwOgRItg https://join.slack.com/t/release-ai/shared_invite/zt-20dxgp2...
craig818 3y ago
I cannot tell how much this company can change your world in this space. Efficiency is paramount in all we do in life and work. Let's get Release wider on the map.
irynakm 3y ago
Weekend project!
quickthrower2 3y ago
I like the “talk to kubernetes” demo I can see that being useful and perhaps a new normal for command line interactions with tools. I wonder if it can help with security hardening recommendations? You might be able to do that in tandem with aqua security or similar.
pradhit 3y ago
Hey awesome work! How are you thinking about convincing CTOs/Heads of engineering to get their companies using this? I'm assuming those are the people you're talking to since devs can't just pick up and use this at work - lmk if I'm wrong. Is it start with read-only, become SOC2 compliant and add more functionality from there or is it more nuanced than that?

143 points by dgiffin 3y ago

samstave 3y ago

Love it. Funny, while I was reading the site, I was wondering if you could build crons on it - and that was the last example :-) Some cool things I'd like to try would be: "Create an alert whenever [EVENT] happens and contact [whomever]" "Give me a system summary every morning at 9:15 AM called "Stand-up Status" "Summarize all events for [OBJECT] each [TIME PERIOD] and send a report daily at X" "Give the CFO a daily spend report each morning" - Can it do things like this?

NickBusey 3y ago
Release engineer here. With the exception of the first example (I'm not sure how good it would be at event monitoring like that, though we're absolutely going to try it out!), I think all of these should work. We've tested the daily spend report already. Give it a shot and let us know how it works for you!
- samstave 3y ago
  For the first one, maybe an Intrusion Detection "Alert me anytime someon attempts to login to [SENSITIVE SYSTEM] - Can this do SPLUNK like log analytics? "Give me a table of all activity of [TYPE] in [THESE LOGS/SYSTEMS]" (for whatever metric youre tracking) "Give me a cron of uptime every hour for [system, site, cluster, whatever]" "create a status page for critical systems A B C X Y Z" -- I dont have any AWS infra to throw this at right now - but I do love this As a Dir. Of DevOps in my career - these were very common questions thrown at me on the regular from PMs, C-suite, engineering etc... So if this were a self-service query portal for teams with permissions/roles on what sort of questions could be asked from other teams that would be cool. this is read only? It cant deploy/launch/buy services can it?
  - NickBusey 3y ago
    Since this is currently talking to AWS and k8s directly, unless you are setup in a way that would let AWS know about the intrusion detection, then this is likely out of scope for now. Similar to the logs/systems access. If AWS or k8s can read the logs, there is a chance we can crunch them, if they are in a separate logging platform, we would currently be unable to fetch that information. Great ideas for future features though! It is currently read only yes.
  - lmeyerov 3y ago
    re:splunk (and opensearch, databricks, etc), we're already doing those with louie.ai and running early self-hosted + saas cohorts. Your questions are very much the type we'd interested in exploring with you! Feel free to signup on our early access program on the site or reach out directly (leo@graphistry.com).

Michelangelo11 3y ago

I like the idea, but how do you handle hallucinations? E.g. when the user asks about their AWS bill, how can they be sure the numbers they get are accurate?

worldsayshi 3y ago
Would be good if any user interface that uses these kinds of llm solutions always include the raw data from the backing services when asked for. Like how in chatgpt you can open and inspect its interaction with a plugin.
- regiswilson 3y ago
  Release engineer here. You can do a bunch of cool tricks like go into `/expert` mode and view all the details. Join our slack workspace (https://release-ai.slack.com https://release-ai.slack.com) and we have tonnes more tricks and techniques to share!
regiswilson 3y ago
Release engineer here. That's an excellent question, and we worry about it all the time. The AI "seems" authoritative, but it can't even add 1+1 sometimes :crying-emoji:. We've tried to engineer the prompts and tooling so that it will say "I don't know" if it doesn't know. But we've still seen it say some crazy things, like "Your cluster is fine" when it clearly wasn't. :tounge-sticking-out-emoji: I guess the only real answer is you have to trust but verify.
- Michelangelo11 3y ago
  Thanks for the answer. Yeah, that's pretty much what I expected would be the case. Speaking as another dev in the AI space, it seems like reliability and consistency are the hardest issues when it comes to making AI genuinely useful in production vs. just a neat toy, and there's no stock solution.
- tommy_mcclung 3y ago
  Tommy, CEO here. We also have some ideas on reporting hallucinations and feeding wrong answers back into the prompts automatically to help reduce instances of hallucinations. We have a few other ideas and would welcome any ideas folks have to help with this problem.

tikkun 3y ago

FYI you may want to add something to the homepage to clarify - I was confused initially, because I clicked through to the Launch YC post, and then I clicked the URL at the top and saw the homepage, which talked about Environments as a Service rather than 'talking to your infra'.

regiswilson 3y ago
Release engineer here, we see this as complementary to environments. When you spin up your infrastructure and environments using our service, how do you interact with them? How do you see what is happening? How can you (easily, as a lay person) figure out how to diagnose, maybe even fix, problems? That is the idea, hope you like it.
tommy_mcclung 3y ago
Done

jakozaur 3y ago

I like the concept, but would love to hear if it's a feature or some long-term product vision. It looks like the main business is Environment as a Service. Do you see ReleaseAI as a new product? Is it related to Env as a service? Or maybe you are considering to pivot?

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tommy_mcclung 3y ago
Tommy, CEO here. We believe it is incredibly complimentary to our core service. What we've found in building Release through our support channels is we spend a tremendous amount of time consulting with the DevOps teams of our customers answering questions like what can be answered with ReleaseAI. It helps us help ourselves and our customers. In the long run we see this being integrated into our core product in really interesting ways as well. There will always be a standalone version.
deleted 3y ago
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nodesocket 3y ago

Congratulations on the launch. I own and run a DevOps consulting company and being able to ask AWS billing questions or create CloudWatch notifications in human language is gonna be a game changer. Looking forward to using and following Releases progress. The .com domain name must have cost a fortune. lol

whalesalad 3y ago

"how much money am i wasting per minute on this huge disk just to achieve high iops?"

regiswilson 3y ago
Relase AI Bot: "Try switching to gp3, you will save money and likely see a performance boost!"

swozey 3y ago

You're basically coming for my job as an SRE/Platarch but great documentation you've covered a lot of scenarios and in a pretty thorough manner. You should figure out a way to import current infra state and control it from your dashboard and build off of that. That'd be really interesting. Like, take over a tfstate file or whatever pulumi/cdk uses. And definitely just build off of aws/gcp/azure/oracle without IAC like terraformer does.

regiswilson 3y ago
Release engineer here. I believe you have hit on some of the ideas we've certainly discussed way down the road (or sooner than you'd think?). For example, can we inform the AI about your existing infrastructure patterns, tooling, configs, etc. and then ask it to "suggest best practices", "compare to security and compliance policies", "improve" it, "analyse optimisations", "identify unused/overprovisioned pieces", etc. etc.!
- swozey 3y ago
  I'll throw you a big bone, I just cut our nearly $million/month aws infra costs down 45% by switching from x86 to arm64. So factor that in for sure. I was hoping for 15-25%.
  - regiswilson 3y ago
    Fantastic, we've already begun switching RDS instances to Arm64 (simple, easy, and effective), but still haven't cracked (yet) building for Arm64 compute containers in a safe and effective way. I love it!
    - Ocha 3y ago
      What about arm64 makes building containers in a safe and effective way harder compared to x86?
      - neduma 3y ago

itsderek23 3y ago

Nice work! I'm working on a similar standalone DevOps AI Agent (OpsTower.ai). This post shows how the agent is structured and how it performs against a 40 question evaluation dataset: https://www.opstower.ai/2023-evaluating-ai-agents/ https://www.opstower.ai/2023-evaluating-ai-agents/

regiswilson 3y ago
That's an impressive article and a lot of good work put into it!

halfba 3y ago

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bfeynman 3y ago

... You seriously just tell people to deploy a stack with your IAM role that "has the least permissions possible" good luck lol. Another thin wrapper around open-ai that doesn't even do the heavy lifting (deploying a secure and trusted authenticated role to access resources that can be easily audited etc)

cddotdotslash 3y ago
For what it’s worth, literally every vendor that operates in its customers’ AWS accounts does this. Create a cross account role, trust the vendor’s account, and give it read only permissions (although don’t use the built in “read only” role since that includes access to things like S3 objects.
- baq 3y ago
  At my current job I can trigger a pipeline to deploy a complex set of cloud formation stacks but my account doesn’t have access to logs of those deployments. Devops!
regiswilson 3y ago
Release engineer here. You can pretty easily audit the policy we use (Read-Only) and you can also add a permissions boundary if you want. We would love to get any feedback and improvements you can offer if you are inclined. We have a slack workspace users can join, check it out. https://release-ai.slack.com https://release-ai.slack.com

welder 3y ago

"Hello database, why are you slow?" /s Serious feedback: * Support Digital Ocean (currently only AWS supported) * Even read-only access is scary... it's not clear if that means you have access to my sensitive user data or just the infra metadata. Normally I would just include relevant info about my AWS infra in my prompt... how is this better than that?

regiswilson 3y ago
Release engineer here. - Support Digital Ocean: We are always looking to add more integrations! - Read-only access to user data: You are welcome to check on the policy and/or adjust it. We default in the recommended case to Read-Only, but you can improve on that with a permissions boundary - How is it better than gathering output from AWS, copy/pasting it into a browser, reading the answer and copy/pasting back into terminal? Well, it's all in one place and it allows a tighter loop between gathering, analysing, and giving responses in one place. It gives lay people better access to data they might not know how to or be able to access, and it gives advanced users smoother, tighter loops on data and access they might already have. Hopefully that gives you some ideas.
throwaway290 3y ago
"Hello AWS, why is there this subnet and who added it?" I'm seriously curious how is asking a chatbot better than looking at a well designed diagram...
- loa_in_ 3y ago
  You're very lucky if there's an up to date diagram and you got confidence in it's correctness.
  - throwaway290 3y ago
    Like a hand-made diagram? That's a blast from the past... I mean a diagram generated directly from your actual infra using the same APIs as the chatbot

artursapek 3y ago

does your entire business depend on the OpenAI API? what happens if they close it down?

regiswilson 3y ago
Release engineer here. No, this tool merely complements our core offerings and also has some use as a standalone tool. We can currently use any of the AI API offerings that are compatible; OpenAI is the one that is most common though. If they shut it down, a lot of people would have to migrate to a different provider but our tool could still work.
- artursapek 3y ago
  cool thanks for the reply

temp9988109 3y ago

Looks cool! A bit hesitant to try it out, though. Can you talk a bit about your privacy and security practices? Do you (or do you plan to) use customer data (or prompts/results) for training? Do you ever read any of the customer's AWS data beyond what's strictly necessary for the functionality of the tool? What data do you retain? I looked at your privacy policy but it's pretty generic.

maccard 3y ago
I do the infra from our company. I _want_ them to train on our infra and everyone else's infra and to tell me what actually works and will solve my problem, not what my account manager recommends because AWS approve it. That's basically the value add of the tool.
- tommy_mcclung 3y ago
  Love this.
- samstave 3y ago
  Exactly. It would be interesting if just like an AI coding assistant, this would be a DevOPs/SRE/Infra assistant, whereby you can also just do your regular CI/CD/deployments/whatever - and have it make recommendations on caveats based on other architectures, or such. e.g. "describe examples for an architecture to accomplish X" and it spits out some examples - then you can choose, and save these "Infra-Prompts" and then later say "generate a new sand-box based on X and connect it to such-and-such and notify USERA when their environment is available, include a status page, and alert cron and a costing line in the daily CFO report" etc
  - maccard 3y ago
    Couldn't agree more. Imagine if it could look at all the other 30-50 person companies who are running a SAAS and say "teams like yours use ECS + Fargate instead of Kubernetes" (as an example)
    - 3y ago

annika88 3y ago

Can't wait to try it!

dgiffin 3y ago

Thanks for all of the feedback. I would love to get everyones ideas on what they would want Release AI to do for them. Please reply in the comments.

BrandonWatson 3y ago
I've worked with Dave before. He will in fact implement ask the things in a very short period of time. We used to talk about him as the master of spinning developer plates.

classified 3y ago

Sorry, Dave, I cannot allow you to do that.

mentos 3y ago

Really curious to know what led you to this project? When ChatGPT4 released did Bella start choking in your head with all of these possibilities?

quickthrower2 3y ago
What is Bella a reference to?
tommy_mcclung 3y ago
We spend a ton of time working directly with DevOps teams of our customers, helping them in using Release, but also just a lot of questions related to their infrastructure and AWS/GCP. We have some crazy good Integration Engineers that field a lot of this and we thought maybe AI could help free them up and scale That’s what sent us down this path.

willsmith72 3y ago

Can i not use it without paying? 16:20:50 You: tell me about my infra 16:20:55 Error: Unexpected Error: err=Exception('got 400 from Release API for https://api.release.com/accounts/x/cloud_integrations https://api.release.com/accounts/x/cloud_integrations'), type(err)=<class 'Exception'> Trace Id: 3f448f09-9cdd-489a-b59d-34f1fb03e3e3 16:21:10 You: what kind of databases am i using? 16:21:15 Error: Unexpected Error: err=Exception('got 400 from Release API for https://api.release.com/accounts/x/cloud_integrations https://api.release.com/accounts/x/cloud_integrations'), type(err)=<class 'Exception'> Trace Id: 8d173a36-fd0a-42f6-b62d-0a4721423301

NickBusey 3y ago
You can, sorry about that! This should be fixed now. If you have any other problems please hop in the slack or shoot us an email! https://join.slack.com/t/release-ai/shared_invite/zt-20dxgp2o0-ePCXzsag6l8_i4HwOgRItg https://join.slack.com/t/release-ai/shared_invite/zt-20dxgp2...

craig818 3y ago

I cannot tell how much this company can change your world in this space. Efficiency is paramount in all we do in life and work. Let's get Release wider on the map.

irynakm 3y ago

Weekend project!

quickthrower2 3y ago

I like the “talk to kubernetes” demo I can see that being useful and perhaps a new normal for command line interactions with tools. I wonder if it can help with security hardening recommendations? You might be able to do that in tandem with aqua security or similar.

pradhit 3y ago

Hey awesome work! How are you thinking about convincing CTOs/Heads of engineering to get their companies using this? I'm assuming those are the people you're talking to since devs can't just pick up and use this at work - lmk if I'm wrong. Is it start with read-only, become SOC2 compliant and add more functionality from there or is it more nuanced than that?