GitLab Extreme Fox, an online code repository hosting platform, has announced the launch of its artificial intelligence programming assistant, Duo Chat, which provides guidance in the form of natural language chat for software engineers and non-engineers alike. The Duo Chat assistant is available in the GitLab user interface and popular third-party IDEs, and can be customized to extend the chat functionality, according to a GitLab press release. GitLab says developers spend 75% of their time on non-writing tasks, including understanding and improving existing code, making...