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It keeps stopping mid-thought or task and forces me to waste more prompts for no observable reason. Looks like I'm ending my subscription, good (likely too good, no way my account was even remotely within profitable range) access to opus-4.6 was the only reason I used this at all.", "context": "ending Copilot subscription", "use_case": "AI coding in CLI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans"}]}, {"text": " and one user says unannounced changes degraded it several times.", "cites": [{"id": 787298016, "item_id": 49206126, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206126", "by": "devmor", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Copilot CLI at work, but now have a daemon that monitors it for updates and monkeypatches in my own custom hook framework.", "excerpt": "For me, Open Source is extremely important because the tools are rapidly changing, and for reasons unrelated to my productivity. 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I pair it with Squad and it\u2019s awesome. https://bradygaster.github.io/squad/ If I have the same repo also open in VSCode, it\u2019s also aware of that fact, so you can give it context (a file or selected lines of code).", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"}, {"id": 742625218, "item_id": 46414076, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414076", "by": "bahaAbunojaim", "date": "2025-12-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Mysti now supports GitHub Copilot CLI as a fourth provider.", "excerpt": "UPDATE: Mysti 0.2.2 Release Hey HN! Quick update on Mysti based on your feedback: 1- Mysti now supports GitHub Copilot CLI as a fourth provider. So you can now do Claude Code + Copilot (running GPT-5) in Brainstorm mode, or any combination of the 4 providers. Mix and match based on what catches different issues. 2- Mysti is now MIT Licensed. 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This came about after 3 separate incidents where I went to use the harness and found it now provided a degraded experience because Microsoft unanimously decided t", "context": "uses it at work", "use_case": "AI coding at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"}, {"id": 785864641, "item_id": 49116540, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116540", "by": "thatnerdyguy", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've been driving Luna xhigh in CoPilot CLI since it was released as my daily driver.", "excerpt": "Not my experience at all. I've been driving Luna xhigh in CoPilot CLI since it was released as my daily driver. Good reasoning, no problems with tool calls.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT\u20115.6"}, {"id": 785357296, "item_id": 49084831, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084831", "by": "murzynalbinos", "date": "2026-07-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the CLI still feels like a half-baked afterthought", "excerpt": "I mostly stick to the IDE version because the CLI still feels like a half-baked afterthought and the App is too disconnected from the actual codebase.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How do you use Copilot in the CLI, App, and IDE?"}, {"id": 776060080, "item_id": 48503755, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503755", "by": "freigeist79", "date": "2026-06-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "i use github copilot cli + openrouter + qwen 3.7 max and it's really much better than i expected", "excerpt": "i use github copilot cli + openrouter + qwen 3.7 max and it's really much better than i expected (used to opus 4.7 at work)", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"}, {"id": 774668144, "item_id": 48416759, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416759", "by": "outside1234", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Github Copilot CLI is for automation. For example, in a Rust project, I use it to audit for security, document, and test issues crate by crate.", "excerpt": "You aren't the only one. There are many people using Github Copilot. Github Copilot CLI is for automation. For example, in a Rust project, I use it to audit for security, document, and test issues crate by crate. This can take an hour and I look at the results afterwards.", "context": "", "use_case": "automated security audit and docs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 767028452, "item_id": 47939278, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939278", "by": "iLemming", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Claude Code CLI, Claude Desktop App, and Copilot CLI", "excerpt": "Of course. I've tried different AI packages and currently gptel and ECA remain the main ingredients. This is a quickly changing landscape, and things may change, but for now it feels very good. I like gptel because it's enormously extendable and exploitable - it allows me to send LLM requests from just about anywhere - I could be typing a message (like this very one) and suddenly in need of ideas for how to phrase so", "context": "Emacs user", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "I have officially retired from Emacs"}, {"id": 766841888, "item_id": 47927618, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927618", "by": "junto", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Quite honestly I love the GitHub Copilot CLI.", "excerpt": "Quite honestly I love the GitHub Copilot CLI. I pair it with Squad and it\u2019s awesome. https://bradygaster.github.io/squad/ If I have the same repo also open in VSCode, it\u2019s also aware of that fact, so you can give it context (a file or selected lines of code).", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in terminal", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"}, {"id": 765422720, "item_id": 47838920, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838920", "by": "WhiteDawn", "date": "2026-04-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "It keeps stopping mid-thought or task and forces me to waste more prompts for no observable reason.", "excerpt": "I wouldn't mind this change that much if opus-4.7 worked properly in copilot cli. It keeps stopping mid-thought or task and forces me to waste more prompts for no observable reason. Looks like I'm ending my subscription, good (likely too good, no way my account was even remotely within profitable range) access to opus-4.6 was the only reason I used this at all.", "context": "ending Copilot subscription", "use_case": "AI coding in CLI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans"}, {"id": 762300976, "item_id": 47643811, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643811", "by": "1a527dd5", "date": "2026-04-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm way more productive with the copilot cli.", "excerpt": "Ignoring the disaster that is their branding/naming. Copilot is _amazing_. Everyone is hyping about Claude, but I'm way more productive with the copilot cli. The copilot cloud agent is great, and copilot code review is great (we also tried the new very expensive claude code review - it was slow and expensive). Forget that it's Microsoft, forget that everything is Copilot and go and give it a shot.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one"}, {"id": 758733027, "item_id": 47420814, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47420814", "by": "cebert", "date": "2026-03-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Teams where I work can use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Copilot CLI.", "excerpt": "We won\u2019t hire anybody moving forward who doesn\u2019t have hands-on agentic programming experience. We\u2019re in the traditionally slower moving GovTech space. I have to imagine this is now a common expectation in many sectors. Teams where I work can use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Copilot CLI. Internally, it seems like Claude Code and Codex are the more popular tools being used by most software teams. If you\u2019re new to th", "context": "Hiring in GovTech space", "use_case": "agentic programming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?"}, {"id": 757095520, "item_id": 47318470, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47318470", "by": "radio879", "date": "2026-03-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I spin up 10x copilot -p \"idea\"", "excerpt": "... also, instead of just using all this stuff out there, like all the OpenClaw stuff, memory systems, what I am doing so that I understand it is just create my own from scratch I have not even read about how that one works, I spin up 10x copilot -p \"idea\", in the new automate mode they just added, in Docker container, 5x gemini cli in pro 3.1 then 5x flash 3.1, gpt 5.4 in there somewhere along with 5.3 codex, o3, 04", "context": "", "use_case": "parallel idea generation in best-of-N", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Read\u2011only LLM tool for email triage and knowledge extraction?"}, {"id": 742625218, "item_id": 46414076, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46414076", "by": "bahaAbunojaim", "date": "2025-12-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Mysti now supports GitHub Copilot CLI as a fourth provider.", "excerpt": "UPDATE: Mysti 0.2.2 Release Hey HN! Quick update on Mysti based on your feedback: 1- Mysti now supports GitHub Copilot CLI as a fourth provider. So you can now do Claude Code + Copilot (running GPT-5) in Brainstorm mode, or any combination of the 4 providers. Mix and match based on what catches different issues. 2- Mysti is now MIT Licensed. Switched from BSL 1.1 to MIT. 3- Better Auth UX When a CLI isn't authenticat", "context": "", "use_case": "provider in Mysti", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Mysti \u2013 Claude, Codex, and Gemini debate your code, then synthesize"}]}