I've been using Ellipsis for a few months now. I have zero regrets about paying for it now and likely will pay them more in the future as their new features ship.
For a solo engineer like me who's working in multiple codebases across multiple languages, it's excellent as another set of eyes to catch big and small things in a pull request workflow I'm used to (and it has caught more than a few). I'd argue even as a backstop for catching edge cases/screwups that may lead to wasting my time that it's already more than paid for itself.
@gregw134 Thank you for sharing! I've never worked at Google, but really curious what the engineering context is when you say "needs a launch" in the last line.
Guessing: perhaps this means, if someone needs credit for shepherding an improvement to search quality into production, here is a set of known improvements waiting for someone to take ownership.
Exactly. The main way to get promoted at Google is to claim that you launched something important. Results in a lot of busywork and misaligned incentives.
Also wrote a little UI for it. https://pradeep.md/skills