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We're building an always available expert that's dedicated to your learning. ExplainDev helps you to understand and apply code by directly answering your technical questions while using your code as context. ExplainDev is available as an extension in VS Code, and on your Chrome browser. It can also be used to create tutorials for sharing or saving.

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During this phase we store the code you choose to get explained along with any feedback you provide to understand how people use ExplainDev and how we perform for those uses. In the future, we’ll provide you granular control of what’s stored in our platform and what your preferences are for where ExplainDev works.

Today ExplainDev can detect code blocks on HTTPS websites, code repositories, forums, docs and blog websites. Found somewhere Explain buttons aren't popping up? Use the ExplainDev option in your right click menu, then, let us know! We want to hear about places where ExplainDev is not currently detecting code. 

When you hit the Explain button, we generate explanations to the selected code in real time. The ExplainDev browser extension sends the code or code blocks you select to the ExplainDev service, which uses OpenAI Codex.

So far we've seen that ExplainDev does especially well with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, PHP, and SQL, but it is proficient in many, many more languages!

All data is transmitted and stored securely. Inspection of the gathered code will be predominantly automatic, and when a human reads it, it is specifically with the aim of understanding how people use ExplainDev and improving explanations.

No. Your privacy is super important to us. Nothing gets tracked before hitting the explain button and the only thing we send when you click explain is the code from the codeblock. The other information we store is what we can derive from the code itself.

You can inspect what data is sent to our servers easily. Watch this video to learn how to do it.