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NoCopilot · 30 Jan 2026

The other day I asked it about a cypress test function and the agent asked if it could run some completely unrelated gibberish python code in my terminal

i_love_retros on Hacker News

In the thread “How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills”

Got in the way: Agents run unrelated gibberish code; colleagues produce unreviewable vibe-coded output.

… Thank god copilot prompts me before running a terminal command. The other day I asked it about a cypress test function and the agent asked if it could run some completely unrelated gibberish python code in my terminal. That's just one of many weird things it's done. …