GitLab engineer: How I improved my onboarding experience with AI

This post details an engineer's personal experience using GitLab Duo for onboarding, exploration, code review, and debugging. It highlights specific use cases for GitLab Duo Chat and Agentic Chat, including searching documentation across multiple sources, identifying edge cases and dependencies for issues, checking against GitLab best practices, reviewing merge requests before human reviewers, and debugging pipeline failures. The post also discusses how these AI-assisted workflows align with GitLab's CREDIT values and emphasizes the importance of cautious AI usage.