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MixedCopilot · 24 Aug 2025

Yes, they do a decent enough job to get your boilerplate done. But they're hopeless to resolve specific issues

orochimaaru on Hacker News

In the thread “Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case”

Helped: Generating boilerplate code.

Got in the way: Resolving specific build errors due to hallucinations.

… So, I don't feel too confident of coding assistants. Yes, they do a decent enough job to get your boilerplate done. But they're hopeless to resolve specific issues.