To be honest all the GitLab dev focus is also AI.
* Originally it was Dev (issues)
* Then it was DevOps (runners)
* Then it was DevSecOps (SAST)
* Now it's AI DevSecOps (reviews, etc)
The problem is that each feature has been slightly more half-baked than the last one. The SecOps stuff is full of gotchas which don't exist. Troubleshooting a pipeline behaving correctly is extremely painful.
The other problem is that if you want a feature you have to upgrade the seat license for everyone :(
End users are being screwed over left and right, you better host your own code. GitHub, GitLab only adds a GUI for git.
Enterprise helm will pay if that means no interruption, no AI being pushed everywhere. Some companies adopt GitLab because you can self host it, even the runners are self-hosted, there is no built-in runner like GitHub.