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The Leaderboard
February 28th, 2025
Your repo has secrets.
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for the last time this week, welcome back to the Leaderboard! Today, we're taking a look at a really smart pig, OpenAI's newest model, a tool to unveil the secrets of the repo, and an AMA with the founder of Bolt.

Pigs are pretty smart

Pig is an AI-powered assistant that automates tasks on your Windows computer. Instead of manually clicking around or setting up complicated scripts, you just tell Pig what to do in a chat, and it handles the clicks and key presses for you. For developers, there’s also an SDK to build custom agents.

🔥 Our take: Not every AI needs to be a genius—some just need to push buttons so you don’t have to. Pig keeps it simple, acting like a little digital intern that actually listens. The name is a choice, though. Maybe because it happily rolls around in the mess of repetitive tasks you don’t want to deal with? Either way, we’re not complaining.

A more confident liar?

GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s latest upgrade, promising sharper reasoning, fewer hallucinations, and an overall smoother experience. It’s designed to be more reliable across tasks like writing, coding, and problem-solving while feeling more natural in conversation.

🔥 Our take: If GPT-4.5 really delivers on better accuracy and fewer hallucinations, that’s a solid step forward. AI is getting better at sounding smart, but the real test is whether it actually is smarter. If it finally stops making things up, great. If not, at least we’ll have a more confident liar.

Your repo is hiding secrets

ExplainGitHub makes it easier to understand unfamiliar repositories by analyzing the code and providing clear explanations. Instead of jumping between files, manually tracing functions, and piecing things together, you get a structured breakdown of how everything works.

🔥 Our take: There’s a special kind of fear that comes with opening a massive GitHub repo and realizing you have no idea where to start. Normally, that means endless scrolling, guessing variable names, and hoping the last person left decent comments. If ExplainGitHub can actually highlight the important parts without dumping generic AI summaries, it might save developers from hours of repo-induced suffering. Otherwise, it’s back to pretending we understand before committing changes.

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