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MixedCopilot · 19 Jul 2025

It can legitimately introduce an entire simple fullstack change across multiple projects in my monorepo including graphql queries/mutations, typeorm repository, a service layer, and a reactnative frontend using apollo client, etc

criley2 on Hacker News

about 10 minutes

In the thread “Nobody knows how to build with AI yet”, replying to this comment

Helped: Local IDE integration allows quick intervention and fixes.

Got in the way: Remote agent misunderstands scripts, tests, and formatting.

It can still be faster to develop with AI watching it work. It can legitimately introduce an entire simple fullstack change across multiple projects in my monorepo including graphql queries/mutations, typeorm repository, a service layer, and a reactnative frontend using apollo client, etc. It can do that in about 10 minutes in my local. …