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NoChatGPT, Copilot · 8 May 2025

I would have saved time doing it myself from the start

tikotus on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?”

Helped: Chat for thinking and syntax; Copilot for multi-file web styling.

Got in the way: Generated Python scripts grew too complex to maintain or fix.

… I would have to go through the whole code from start and internalize it fully to be able to get the thing done. I would have saved time doing it myself from the start. So now I mainly use the chat just to ask about available functions, syntax, etc, but rarely use the generated code. …