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NoCopilot · 11 Aug 2025

Copilot has also not impressed anyone on my team. As far as the code we work on, it’s pretty bad

al_borland on Hacker News

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In the thread “Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?”

Helped: Writing queries to pull values out of complex json.

Got in the way: General code generation quality and decision-making bottlenecks.

… AI isn’t solving that. Copilot has also not impressed anyone on my team. As far as the code we work on, it’s pretty bad. There are a few niche things it helps with, mostly writing queries to pull values out of complex json. …