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YesCopilot · 31 Mar 2025

I spent ~8 hours with copilot making a react "app" to someone else's spec, and most of it was moving things around and editing CSS back and forth because copilot has an idea of how things ought be, that didn't comport with what I was seeing on my screen

genewitch on Hacker News

In the thread “Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison”, replying to this comment

Helped: Implementing specific math logic correctly after manual napkin sketching.

Got in the way: Copilot's internal design ideas conflicted with visual screen reality.

… i linked the relevant parts below. I spent ~8 hours with copilot making a react "app" to someone else's spec, and most of it was moving things around and editing CSS back and forth because copilot has an idea of how things ought be, that didn't comport with what I was seeing on my screen. However the MVP went live and everyone was happy. …