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YesCopilot, Gemini · 4 Nov 2026

I love working with co-pilot, but it's best for work where I need to be hands-on

gwbas1c on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?”

Helped: Agent mode in VS Code and pre-reviewing PRs with Copilot.

Got in the way: GPT models leave code harder to maintain.

… One important thing: I'm after my boss to dedicate time (1-2 weeks) for me to set up and learn more of the hands-off tools. I love working with co-pilot, but it's best for work where I need to be hands-on. I really need to be able to offload simple work, or work where lower-quality results are okay, to a bot that I don't need to supervise.