Understand your code using GitHub Copilot's explain feature #Shorts

GitHub Copilot can help you understand your code by explaining it in plain English, long form English, explaining the syntax, and showing examples of the code's output.

Presented by: Michelle Mannering AKA MishManners

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[Mdroudian]

Not only did you write your own code. Now you need AI to help you understand it. AI-splaining in action.

[zezeandjr]

Maybe you should tell people that this is a PAID feature, an important fact to mention.

[Irgendeinwer]

finally i can understand the code i wrote!!!

[aqzp.]

just tried it, it’s way better than it sounds like.

[scifi_shop]

How about having clippy the paperclip explains to you your code.


No no no don't give Microsoft bad ideas.

[notTakumo]

Imagine making a code for an AI to explain someone's code to them lmao

[NicoTheAnimal]

Real programmers copy and paste from Stack over flow

[mrkayjaydee]

Nice to make people pay for their own open source code.

[bushydev]

honestly pretty cool for the code that I just copy and pasted from co pilot without any idea what it does

I... see a problem if you need explanation on code... you wrote.
Back in the day we had a tradition of //commenting lines or blocks of code so the next nitwit squinting at it would get a clue//

[felixalr]

How did you write the code if you don’t understand it?

[Snailsxd]

So people nowadays don't understand the code they write...?

[yungifez]

Lmao 10 dollars per month

That's like a week of feeding for me 🤣🤣

[JdTheth]

You forgot to mention the part where you have to pay 10 dollars to access this mish mash of oss code

[connorkrakosky]

ya it was nicer when copilot was free. yano, when we were getting a service that wasn't greedy. yano, when you machine learned off of all our code to be able to do this (for free btw)

[TannerCh]

I've never had a computer explain something complex to me and had it make more sense. This'll be interesting 🙄

[matthewjohnson]

this is great for new devs or looking at legacy code

[PerfectEnmy]

Nice code you write if you need AI to explain it to you

[legui]

The tool is great for saving time but I think it makes your brain lazier😅

[acidhauss]

I love GitHub copilot but don't like this feature at all - even if you didn't write it you should at least be able to understand it!