Yeah, Dagger.io - used it on my last project. It was great.
What I like about it is how it’s pushing secrets management and private project dependencies as first-class citizens, as it’s such a pain to get that stuff working in GitLab, as so many less experienced folk see no issue with a separate local build config and a remote build config full of GitHub/GitLab/CircleCI specific seas of platform-specific YAML.
Another nice thing about Dagger.io is that they make it very easy to debug the build (interactive console) so you don’t need to get into 20-minute “change YAML, trigger build event, view the logs” hell cycles.
The AI/LLM hype at the moment is so jading; lots of it’s garbage, and every company under the sun is trying to convince investors they have their own HAL 9000 system when they’ve just got an even worse interface to their systems than the janky React (insert FANG company the developer wished they were working at when they selected the tech) system that preceded it.
