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MixedCopilot · 22 Mar 2025

Honestly, there is a time savings, but there is not a quality increase

redleggedfrog on Hacker News

In the thread ““Vibe Coding” vs. Reality”

Helped: Surgical use for specific code snippets.

Got in the way: Unrestrained use leading to broken PRs and bugs.

… Most of the time Copilot gives you a page of say, React code, or EF Core queries, you have to be really careful about anything you didn't explicitly ask for. Honestly, there is a time savings, but there is not a quality increase. The benefit is subverted by the time it takes to figure out how to ask correctly, the time to vet the output, and the time to fix the little tiny insidious bugs it can introduce. …