instruct
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The San Francisco company, founded in 2022, enables engineers to instruct software in English to run coding tasks autonomously.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026
It has also asked the court to instruct Canadian immigration authorities to allow Partey to submit a new visa application.
From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026
They built an extremely popular AI coding assistant which allowed engineers to instruct the software in English that would subsequently run coding tasks autonomously.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026
The hidden prompts could instruct the app to scan a company’s internal systems for sensitive files and transmit them to the attacker’s server.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
On our first day in court we were not given the opportunity to instruct counsel.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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