A developer's new best friend? ChatGPT is up with the best when it comes to automatically debugging code. But whether it saves developers' time or creates more work remains to be seen.

Python for VS Code comes with the Python extension in the code editor's marketplace, which has been installed a whopping 30.3 million times, making it the most popular tool in the marketplace by far.

The program works by reading a Python script as an input file, setting up a few parameters, then making a request to OpenAI’s Codex API for the conversion. It then attempts to compile the result.