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MixedCopilot · 15 Oct 2025

The agent/chat mode, I think that could be useful, if you know in what cases it would do it ok

Zardoz84 on Hacker News

In the thread “I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code”, replying to this comment

Helped: Autocomplete for refactoring and writing test boilerplate.

Got in the way: Agent chat produced bad code and messed up file encoding.

… So... The agent/chat mode, I think that could be useful, if you know in what cases it would do it ok. The autocomplete is very useful, but needs to be dialed down.