Duo Chat
GitLab's AI coding chat assistant that provides code explanations, suggestions, and answers in natural language.
Tool overview
Duo Chat is an AI-powered chatbot integrated into GitLab's DevOps platform, accessible via the GitLab UI and third-party IDEs. It helps users understand existing code, generate comments, refactor, and explain security vulnerabilities, aiming to reduce the 75% of developers' time spent on non-coding tasks.
Leveraging advanced models like Anthropic Claude-2 and Vertex AI Codey, Duo Chat offers a large context window for coherent conversations and supports customizable extensions. It serves both software engineers and non-engineers, such as product managers, who need quick code-level insights.
Currently, pricing and service tiers have not been publicly disclosed, and some features (e.g., test case generation) remain upcoming. The tool is tightly coupled with the GitLab ecosystem, limiting its availability to GitLab users.
It is well-suited for teams already using GitLab who want to reduce the friction of understanding and maintaining code. Not recommended for non-GitLab shops or environments with stringent AI code safety and compliance requirements that have not been validated.