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YesWindsurf, Copilot · 14 Dec 2025

I give it the boring work, I keep the fun stuff for myself

gcbirzan on Hacker News

monorepo of a bit over 1M LoC

In the thread “Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Asking codebase questions and using supertab for routine changes.

Got in the way: Describing complex tasks to the AI takes almost as much time as implementing.

… > For me this method allows me to focus on the architecture and overall structure and delegate the plumbing to Copilot. Yeah, a coworker said this best, I give it the boring work, I keep the fun stuff for myself.