[ediardo]

I've been using Copilot for 5 months while building another AI productivity tool. It's changed my habits my I'm becoming a bit dependent on it for autocompletion. It feels so good just hitting TAB and moving on.

I know some developers that aren't embracing it the same way I do, making judgements without even trying it. "This is the future", I tell them, "it makes your life much easier", but there's resistance.

Prompt engineering is quite interesting too, and it may turn into a job skill later. While using Codex, I understood the importance of knowing how to ask for the right things to a non-human. Is bit like talking to Alexa in the early days, in the sense that I couldn't talk to Alexa like a human yet, I had to be specific, clear and intentional. I still see that people who are less experienced with a smart personal assistant struggle to get their commands done.

If you love this technology and would love to try it for Explaining Code in your browser, check out the extension ExplainDev (https://explain.dev). It works on GitHub, StackOverflow and documentation websites.

Disclaimer: I built ExplainDev, with the help of Copilot.

[asxd]

Looks interesting. I signed up and received an email with the chrome store link, but the email didn't include an access code (it mentions it, "...and the access key below.", but the only thing below is the store link). Is this a bug or am I missing something?

EDIT: A second email showed up about 30min later that did contain the code.

[ediardo]

You just reported a new bug. It's been fixed. Thank you!

Enjoy

[ExtraE]

Have you considered supporting Firefox?

Also: what’s involved in writing a browser extension? What was the experience like?

[ediardo]

Yes, we will land on Firefox very soon, hopefully next month.

Copilot's been very useful. The extension is built on TS and lots of custom CSS. Codex is knowledgeable with browser extension APIs and it's helped me to write most CSS utility classes that change sizes, margins and paddings, so that I don't have to bundle the extension with another third-party library.

[cercatrova]

I've written extensions before and Firefox has a very good polyfill [0] that makes it quite easy to write extensions for all browsers. It does get a bit trickier if you also want to incorporate TypeScript [1] or React however.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill

[1] https://github.com/Lusito/webextension-polyfill-ts

[fuzzythinker]

Thank you guys for creating it! I find it as useful as copilot!