What is Duo Chat
Duo Chat is a conversational method launched by the source code management platform GitLabAI Programming Assistantaims to provide real-time guidance to engineering and non-engineering users through natural language interaction. This AI programming tool supports the entire software development lifecycle, helping teams improve code understanding, enhance collaboration, and quickly master the use of GitLab. Duo Chat can interpret code, refactor code, generate tests, and provide code suggestions to improve development efficiency and code quality. At the same time, it also focuses on privacy protection, does not use customer data to train AI models, and allows organizations to control AI access to sensitive data. Duo Chat can also be integrated into popular IDEs such as VS Code and JetBrains suites, in addition to being part of the GitLab user interface.
The main functions of Duo Chat
- Real-time technical guidance: GitLab Duo Chat provides instant technical support for engineering and non-engineering team members, covering the entire software development lifecycle.
- Code understanding: Through natural language interpretation, help developers quickly understand new code segments and reduce the learning curve.
- Improved code quality: Provides intelligent code reconstruction function, and developers can optimize existing code to make it more efficient and modern.
- Automated testing: Automatically generate test code to help the team discover potential program errors in advance and improve software quality.
- Smart code suggestions:Duo Chat can predictably complete code blocks and recommend commonly used code patterns to improve coding efficiency.
- Code generation: Automatically generate complete lines of code or functions based on comments to simplify the development process.
- Code Completion: Automatically complete new lines of code based on a few characters entered by the user to speed up development.
- Multilingual and IDE compatibility: Supports multiple programming languages such as C, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, etc., as well as seamless integration with popular IDEs such as VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDE suite and Neovim.
Product Prices for GitLab Duo Chat
For new GitLab users, Duo Chat offers a free trial of 30 days. If you are an existing user, Duo Chat is currently available for paid users of GitLab Premium and Ultimate. You need to purchase the corresponding additional subscription to use the GitLab Duo Pro function.
- GitLab Duo Pro：
- For developers who want to focus on innovation and delivering high-quality software.
- Pricing is USD 19/user/month and is subject to annual payment.
- This version includes functions such as code interpretation, code reconstruction and test generation.
- GitLab Duo Enterprise(coming soon):
- For organizations that want to fully utilize AI in the software development lifecycle.
- Priced at $39/user/month, and it also needs to be paid annually.
- In addition to including all the features of GitLab Duo Pro, additional advanced features will be included, such as summary and template tools, security and vulnerability tools, advanced troubleshooting, and more.
Applicable people for Duo Chat
- Developer: Software developers who need to quickly understand new code, improve coding efficiency, refactor code and generate test code.
- Non-technical team members: Including project managers, product managers, designers, etc. They may need to understand how the code works, but do not have a deep technical background.
- DevOps Professionals: Professionals responsible for software deployment, monitoring and maintenance, who can use Duo Chat to optimize CI/CD processes and improve the security of infrastructure code.
- Safety Expert: Experts who focus on software security can use Duo Chat’s vulnerability explanation and fix suggestions to improve code security.
- Freelancers and independent developers: Independent software developers can use Duo Chat to improve personal productivity, especially when teamwork is lacking.
- Corporate Customers: Enterprises that hope to adopt AI technology throughout the software development life cycle to improve development efficiency and software quality.
- GitLab Users: Users who have used GitLab for project management and code hosting can get richer features and better user experience through Duo Chat.
Duo Chat application scenarios
- Getting started with new projects: New developers can quickly understand the basic knowledge of project background, CI/CD processes, framework usage, etc. through Duo Chat.
- Code writing and suggestions:Duo Chat can provide code completion, generation and suggestions to help developers improve coding efficiency.
- Automated testing:Duo Chat can automatically generate test code, helping teams detect potential flaws and errors earlier.
- Security vulnerability management: Security teams can use Duo Chat’s vulnerability explanation and fix suggestions to deal with security issues more efficiently.
- Collaboration and communication: Duo Chat supports real-time communication among team members, providing fast technical guidance and decision support.
- Documentation and specification writing: Developers can use Duo Chat to generate documents, templates and problem descriptions to standardize team documentation work.
- Review and feedback:Duo Chat can assist in generating review summary during code review process, helping authors and reviewers communicate more efficiently.
- project management: Project managers can use Duo Chat to track project progress, generate status reports, and quickly obtain project overview.
