Yes
It was able to identify the issue and propose a solution without me even walking through what the legacy app does
virtualram on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?”
Helped: Providing entire source code and log files instead of pieces.
Got in the way: Trying to analyze the code piece by piece.
… I pointed copilot to the legacy source code which was in C++ and also gave it all the log files that were generated. It was able to identify the issue and propose a solution without me even walking through what the legacy app does. Initially I was trying to do it piece by piece but it was not going anywhere and then when I just gave it the entire source code with the log files it was able to find the issue.