How is the "ability to automatically insert comments or some ability to explain codebases" different from what copilot already does?

@singer currently, it generates code. It can't retroactively explain codebases or insert comments there without manually plugging the code in over and over. I was looking for a dedicated feature.

@SahilDeshmukh What editor are you using? You shouldn't need to ever copy and paste anything into a window manually, at least in VS Code. I can already click anywhere in the code window and select "Explain this" or "Generate documentation". You can select a chunk of code and ask it to "generate comments" if you have the chat extension installed.

Do you mean something more along the lines of making a high-level overview of a large codebase, and adding thousands of comments to all of the files in one go?

@singer I meant at large scales - like going through huge chunks and providing high level ideas or at least offering comments along the way.

@SahilDeshmukh Yep, it can't do that very effectively. I assumed you meant something like that, but it wasn't clear from the wording.