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Deeper look: Where does Copilot run?

Deeper look: Where does Copilot run? - Visual Studio Tutorial

From the course: AI-Powered Development: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

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Deeper look: Where does Copilot run?

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- [Narrator] We've been using Copilot Agent for a while now. Most of the time, we don't have to think too much about what it's doing, so long as it behaves the way we expect and makes the code changes we need, but it never hurts to peek under the hood and understand what's really happening when we run Copilot Agent. We already know that our input, the text that we type, gets sent to a large language model. The LLM processes that request and returns a response. But when you're working with an agent, it's not just generating a reply. It also needs to take action. So where does that action actually happen? At first glance, it might seem that everything is running right on your local machine, and to some extent that's true, especially when it comes to changes in your file system. When your code files are updated, those updates happen locally. But here's the key. The actual execution of tasks, running scripts…

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