Three developer tasks worth handing to an agent

From the source: GitLab Blog

You already have an AI assistant. It completes your code, explains code you didn’t write, and maybe even drafts a whole feature while you sip your coffee. An agent on GitLab picks up where your editor stops. The AI in your editor only knows what's open in your editor. It doesn't know that your merge request has been sitting in the queue for two days, or that your pipeline failed for the third…

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Originally published by GitLab Blog on 19 Oct 2026. Techarda links to the original rather than republishing it. Read the full article →

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