Re:How We Rooted Copilot
by blastonico on Saturday July 26, 2025 @07:22PM
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Not really. You're referring to agents, but the model doesn't always require agents, and the public chatbot is not connected to a shell freely evaluating arbitrary commands.
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> and the public chatbot is not connected to a shell freely evaluating arbitrary commands.
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This is false.
Modern chatbots use tool orchestration where the LLM is given a list of tools it can use. Tools include things like searching the web and, yes, executing code. The LLM can generate arbitrary code (typically Python) and call a tool to execute it and return results. The tool takes the Python input, launches it (in a container in this example) and returns the output, which the LLM can further process.