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YesCopilot, Claude · 15 Oct 2025

It was still quicker and took less cognitive effort than writing the entire PR myself

brushfoot on Hacker News

90 minutes

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

Helped: Writing a detailed Markdown spec before generation.

Got in the way: One generated test did not test what it purported to.

… It wasn't a big deal. It was still quicker and took less cognitive effort than writing the entire PR myself. I'll confess that part of me is pleased to be dismissed with epithets like "AI-pilled," because properly using LLMs is an enormous competitive advantage. …