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YesCopilot, Claude Code · 2 Feb 2026

It's just able to work over larger code bases and over longer time horizons than Copilot

smithkl42 on Hacker News

In the thread “Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft”, replying to this comment

Helped: Handling larger code bases and longer time horizons effectively.

Got in the way: Copilot stopped working after few tool calls and demanded constant permission.

… But as soon as I did, I figured out what the hype was about. It's just able to work over larger code bases and over longer time horizons than Copilot. The last time I tried Copilot, just to compare, I noticed that it would make some number of tool calls (not even involving tokens!) and then decide, "Nah, that's too many. …