An interesting operational mode is offered by ChatGPT Codex, in having access to your repositories and running entirely on the cloud to improve the code and then opening a “Pull Request” to your repository.

The web interface looks like a chatbot, but you have to specify the repository you will work on (in this example covtobed):

After working on your request, the agent can create a “pull request” to your repository on your behalf:

Copilot (GitHub)

Microsoft added copilot features in GitHub (not without sparking a good level of controversy). When a GitHub action fails, Copilot can quickly check the log to explain it:

In this case I made an error in this very website’s syntax and quickly found where it originated.

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