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MixedCopilot · 12 Aug 2025

Half a day of labour turned into fifteen minutes

mikepurvis on Hacker News

Half a day of labour turned into fifteen minutes

In the thread “Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context”, replying to this comment

Helped: Assigning simple tasks like GHA workflows to Copilot.

Got in the way: Nuanced tasks caused frustration and wasted time.

… Sure, make a ticket, assign it to copilot, check in later to give a little feedback and we're golden. Half a day of labour turned into fifteen minutes. But there are a lot of tasks that are far too nuanced where trying to take that approach just results in frustration and wasted time. …