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Re: GitHub Copilot Labs

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I've been finding it amazingly useful from the outset. It's like it reads my mind generating whole correct functions just from a small comment or example, and it's great at extrapolating repetitive increments/transformations. Write a small comment telling it what you want and it's uncanny what it can spit out.

I've had the opposite experience so far, though I've admittedly not used it that much yet. I've got this Python fiscal date library at work, and I wanted to add a something like a `strtftime()` method which would replace $P with the period, $Q with the quarter, etc, but treat $$ as a literal $ (so that e.g. $$P would result in $P). Simple enough, but I thought it would be cute to see if I could get copilot to do it f…

Maybe it's better at Java and Javascript than Python at the moment.

Have you tried it on test cases at all?

Re: GitHub Copilot Labs

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Hello! I'm the founder of https://denigma.app , an AI that explains code. It's available now, with a free demo and VS Code extension, with an Emacs extension coming soon. Denigma is a product that has been around for a while. Denigma goes beyond a literal line by line explanation, and explains of programming concepts and deduces the business logic and goal of code. I'm excited to see innovation in the field. Here's a…

Here is a sample I just tried -- https://imgur.com/a/2T2Bw0X Very amusing that the explanation goes into great lengths to explain some nuance that doesn't exist ...and gets it completely wrong? Is this because it was trained on some similar but different code that had this type of nuances explained in comments?

Hmmmm, if it's not "too long to fit on one line and so instead it's written as 12", what is "setLong(12)"?
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