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NoCopilot, Llama · 1 Sep 2025

It seems like most of its suggestions are completely misguided and incorrect, usually just duplicating the code immediately above or below the cursor location while updating the name of a single identifier to match some perceived pattern

encody on Hacker News

In the thread “Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated”

Got in the way: Copilot duplicated code with wrong identifiers; Zed burned credits fast.

… it's horrible. It seems like most of its suggestions are completely misguided and incorrect, usually just duplicating the code immediately above or below the cursor location while updating the name of a single identifier to match some perceived pattern. Not remotely close to what I'd consider useful; I'm definitely a faster & better programmer without it. …