Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

There’s is a use case in Backstage community that needs to be solved. It doesn’t have a solution yet but there are companies that need it. Gumtree or something like it could be a possible solution. If you’re interested, I can explain the use case.

Would be curious to that as well <@U039BA2EB71>

<@U02HFP1KUVB> I spoke with <@U03FCPL9S2U> about this in DMs. I’m happy to share these with you

Sure! If <@U03FCPL9S2U> also doesn’t mind :smile:

AFAIU <@U039BA2EB71> is raising the point of repairing code using ML. Let me know what do you think.

<@U02HFP1KUVB> the original use case that I wanted to share was this <https://github.com/backstage/backstage/issues/14416>

In summary, Scaffolder Plugin for Backstage allows creating new repositories from code templates. When the template changes, the repository created from the template is not updated. This makes it difficult to maintain consistency within the organization that uses these templates.

<@U03FCPL9S2U> and I originally started talking about this use case and then we arrived at “what if we could use a combination of gumtree + stable diffusion to merge the code.” Stable diffusion is similar to Code Pilot. It can be trained to generate code. Hopefully Gumtree can allow us to merge with structure aware merging. Stable diffusion can run afterwards to glue the merged code with divergent code.