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MixedCopilot · 21 Aug 2025

I'm faster working without any copilot "assistance"

tetha on Hacker News

In the thread “AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'”, replying to this comment

Helped: Structured codebases with well-written development and extension guides.

Got in the way: Obscure DSLs like Vector remap language with little public code.

… But currently I'm working in Vector and it's Vector remap language... it's enough of a mess that I'm faster working without any copilot "assistance". I think the main issue is that there is very little VRL code out in the open, and the remaps depend on a lot of unseen context, which one would have to work on giving to the LLM. …