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NoCopilot, GPT · 19 Nov 2025

Copilot has mostly been useful to write some json queries or regex, that’s about it

al_borland on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like a 'manager' now, with AI?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Writing JSON queries and regular expressions.

Got in the way: Generating Ansible code and handling proprietary enterprise software logic.

… If someone has done it before, it is likely in another enterprise and not public code. Copilot has mostly been useful to write some json queries or regex, that’s about it. I know Ansible Lightspeed exists. …