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YesCopilot · 25 May 2026

About 75-80% of the time, the code that was added matched the current style (warts and all)

coredog64 on Hacker News

About 75-80% of the time, the code that was added matched the current style

In the thread “Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation”, replying to this comment

Helped: Researching how features are already done in the codebase.

I was recently using Copilot to implement a small feature within a very large codebase. About 75-80% of the time, the code that was added matched the current style (warts and all). Copilot would specifically go off and research "How X is already done in the codebase" all the time.