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YesCopilot · 15 Jan 2026

It actually works much better than the Microsoft Copilot app we’re officially supposed to use

magnetometer on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?”

Helped: Building a local app to switch models and manage context files.

Got in the way: The official Microsoft Copilot app was inferior.

… So I built a small local Streamlit-based chat app that lets me switch models within a conversation, add or remove files from the context, and clean up dead ends. It actually works much better than the Microsoft Copilot app we’re officially supposed to use.