GitHub Copilot Labs

Neat! The explain feature is exactly what I had hoped to see built: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27813639

Is this the same backend that is powering https://denigma.app ?

having used copilot for only a couple hours and found it annoying... this might be a but less obstructive. though contrary to the commenter the samples in that thread didnt seem all that great to me. ill try it out tho and since its in the sidebar itll hopefully be less distracting.

I made the first comment on that issue: tbh it does work better than expected on intentionally bad code, but not perfect. It could be useful to speed up documentation though.

Almost certainly not

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That was also the first time I had heard of denigma.app and their tagline of

We stress-tested it on the worst, most obscure code we could find. That's why we're confident it will work on your complex codebase.

gave me a good chuckle since just trivially modifying their example ... sort of worked

Given:

    RUN apt-get update && exit 1 && apt-get install -y libnss3 libgtk-3-0 libx11-xcb1 libxss1 libasound2

It produced:

- Next, apt-get is used to update the system and exit 1 is used to stop any further commands from running.

- Then libnss3, libgtk-3-0, libx11-xcb1, libxss1, and libasound2 are installed using apt-get.

For good fun, I tried another small edit

    RUN exit 1 && apt-get update && apt-get install -y libnss3 libgtk-3-0 libx11-xcb1 libxss1 libasound2

With an even better explanation:

- The code then runs an exit command and uses apt-get to update its package list before installing libnss3, libgtk-3-0, libx11-xcb1, libxss1, and asound2.