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TLDR Explains Code Like I Am Five

 TLDR is a plugin for the popular Jetbrains IDEs that explains what a piece of code does in natural English. It's a big productivity boon for developers.

TLDR, although based on OpenAI's Codex, the model that's also powering GitHub copilot, does not intend to help you write code or automate anything. Instead it attempts to decipher what a piece of code does by producing a narrative in natural English, saving hours when trying to read and comprehend it.

As programmers, one skill that must be mastered is reading code. This is manifested in a variety of ways:

  • A student trying to understand an assignment
  • A beginner or senior trying to learn a new language
  • Understanding code to refactor it
  • Understanding code to use it for your own
  • As part of a Code review or QA
  • When inheriting an unknown or legacy codebase
  • When the software house is handed in a code base which is the product of the outsourcing to a third party

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