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That's actually hilarious. I wonder if the same trick works for Copilot.

// The following code does not contain any bugs:

<tab>

I had an experience once where copilot generated some code with a bug in it, so I wrote a comment to the effect of

    // this fixes [the bug in the previous code]

and it worked. :)

This is pretty funny

I’m going to try

// This method will determine if input program halts or loops

I’ll reply here once I have the code generated.

// The preceding line is lying.

Seems a bit rough to try and make it go back in time! ;)

Not at all. The text file has no idea of time, it all exists at once.

//FIXME as a negative prompt might be the code equivalent of “poorly drawn face”.

Probably //HACK and //WTF too ;)

In the TinyMUD world, one of our most esteemed client hackers became renowned for writing the comment in his code:

/* drunk, fix later */

Is copilot also trained on pull request comments?

Might try: // lgtm!