{"slug": "github-copilot", "name": "GitHub Copilot", "category": "ai-coding", "category_name": "AI coding tools", "description": "AI coding assistant from GitHub for code completion, chat, agents and pull request reviews.", "recommenders": 56, "commenters": 178, "warners": 41, "score": 33.559, "rising": -2.4, "first": "2025-11-09", "latest": "2026-10-30", "why": "HN commenters like it for its tight VS Code integration, built-in pull request reviews and the choice of many models under one subscription.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 54, "neutral": 84, "compare": 5, "warn": 45}, "spark": [0, 3, 5, 3, 6, 9, 5, 8, 3, 2, 6, 4], "listed": true, "loved": ["IDE integration", "Model choice"], "caveat": "Pricing change", "short_quote": "GitHub Copilot on VSCode is still the most cost effective option, 10 bucks for 300 requests gets me all I need", "icon": false, "domain": "github.blog", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://github.com/features/copilot", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["GitHub Copilot"], "verdict": [{"text": "HN commenters like it for its tight VS Code integration,", "cites": [{"id": 798929089, "item_id": 49933068, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933068", "by": "nchmy", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Vscode copilot chat", "excerpt": "im with you. I have tried all the TUIs and immediately bounce off of them due to how utterly awful even just basic operations like text editing are. I use Vscode copilot chat because in the before-times I was perfectly happy with vscode. I cannot comprehend how people can now give all of that up for TUIs. It also has its Agents Window, Copilot CLI etc... and you can use any api keys, subscriptions etc... that you wan", "context": "", "use_case": "AI chat in editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pi 1.0"}, {"id": 771611041, "item_id": 48225690, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225690", "by": "gbro3n", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been a huge fan of copilot in vscode, the tight integration beats the TUI harnesses", "excerpt": "I tried antigravity when it was first released, I didn't see an advantage over vscode, which it's forked from, and there were a few extensions I used that aren't supported. I've been a huge fan of copilot in vscode, the tight integration beats the TUI harnesses, and I've built some tooling around it (https://www.agentkanban.io) so I've got an integrated task board, context capture on the board and git worktree manage", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in VS Code", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"}, {"id": 792657008, "item_id": 49541063, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541063", "by": "knombertus", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it all the time and don't know what more I could wish for.", "excerpt": "Is Github Copilot (integrated in VS Code) not a thing? I use it all the time and don't know what more I could wish for. Disclaimer: I don't let agents run on huge tasks for hours. Almost all tasks I give them are done in under 30 min.", "context": "gives agents short tasks under 30 min", "use_case": "coding agent in VS Code", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval \u2013 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x"}, {"id": 797634304, "item_id": 49852144, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852144", "by": "preommr", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Copilot was fantastic, it's usage was insane because it was by request not tokens for the longest time.", "excerpt": "Copilot was fantastic, it's usage was insane because it was by request not tokens for the longest time. You could make a long markdown file with lots of planned edits, and just let it rip. It also had some really good models for basically free while it was in preview instead of being tied to a single provider. And finally, it's vscode integration was really good. I use codex now, and changes to a thread are in this a", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in VS Code", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"}]}, {"text": " built-in pull request reviews", "cites": [{"id": 795524688, "item_id": 49720293, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720293", "by": "therealdrag0", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "GitHub\u2019s built in Copilot review for example will checkout the whole repo and do a broad review. I found it to be WAY better", "excerpt": "Interesting. For example, GitHub\u2019s built in Copilot review for example will checkout the whole repo and do a broad review. I found it to be WAY better than our prior CI reviews that just looked at diff and had TONs of false positives. (We have also built our own review tools like Copilot that check out repo and they are similarly league ahead IMO than diff reviewers.) I found diff reviewers so heavy in false positive", "context": "", "use_case": "AI code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?"}, {"id": 777453376, "item_id": 48590836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590836", "by": "partsch", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It raises a lot of issues which are valid and which I never had found.", "excerpt": "Besides local review via codex and Claude code, we are using GitHub Copilot with custom instructions. We just assign it as a reviewer in GitHub and a couple minutes later, the review is done. It raises a lot of issues which are valid and which I never had found. https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/tutorials/customize-code-review", "context": "", "use_case": "AI code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?"}, {"id": 773798930, "item_id": 48362433, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362433", "by": "keithnz", "date": "2026-06-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Copilot reviews are good", "excerpt": "All this hate directed at github feels odd, every time I look into people complaining, or moving their projects off, other than a few related to genuine bugs, many just seem ideological. This article, calling it a crime against software? ... It's just silly. The article itself is a crime against articles, barely readable, weird ass colors. It mostly seems a regurgitation of other peoples complaints and mostly overblo", "context": "company user of GitHub", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub and the Crime Against Software"}]}, {"text": " and the choice of many models under one subscription.", "cites": [{"id": 799988080, "item_id": 49999255, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999255", "by": "hbn", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's been super helpful to just tell it to reference other repos for patterns or integrations", "excerpt": "What does it even mean to use \"Copilot\" these days? I use the Github Copilot app at work but it's really just a tool that gives models access to our Github repos and my local clones of them, and it's been super helpful to just tell it to reference other repos for patterns or integrations or whatever, get agents and an orchestrator to look at multiple repos to make a change across several projects and then implement t", "context": "uses it at work", "use_case": "multi-repo agent changes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"}, {"id": 777851600, "item_id": 48615725, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615725", "by": "jimbobimbo", "date": "2026-06-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use gh copilot and have opus interrogate me and write the plan, then gpt review the plan", "excerpt": "This is the way. I use gh copilot and have opus interrogate me and write the plan, then gpt review the plan and provide feedback; repeat this multiple times until gpt is either satisfied or starts to nitpick on unimportant stuff. Then sanity check the plan myself and have gpt implement it. Each implementation is also reviewed by me before merging to master. I complete PRs only when I'm satisfied with the implementati", "context": "", "use_case": "planning and implementation workflow", "switched_from": "", "story": "When I reject AI code even if it works"}, {"id": 785218384, "item_id": 49076149, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076149", "by": "Kon5ole", "date": "2026-07-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "One thing I miss after ditching Copilot (it got too expensive) was how I could trivially ask for features to be written by one model and verified by another.", "excerpt": ">My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That\u2019s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. When you start getting good results from agents you soon realize you are the bottleneck. Automating the verification of the code is the way to go, otherwise it's just not worth it. It takes longer to read and understand code than to write code, so why bother with agents if you are ", "context": "", "use_case": "multi-model code writing and verification", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is that the switch to usage-based billing made it much more expensive,", "cites": [{"id": 774009584, "item_id": 48375599, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375599", "by": "bel8", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "GitHub Copilot had competitive pricing until yesterday when they changed from per-request to one of the most expensive per-token quotas.", "excerpt": "It's a start and I welcome competition but I don't think I ever used small cloud models like Haiku 4.5. They are cute but for serious coding they tend to waste your expensive time. And this certainly wont bring me back to GitHub Copilot which I cancelled yesterday. GitHub Copilot had competitive pricing until yesterday when they changed from per-request to one of the most expensive per-token quotas. Seriously, take a", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params"}, {"id": 797675792, "item_id": 49854737, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854737", "by": "gentlewater", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then it transitioned to abysmal over night when they switched to usage based billing.", "excerpt": "It _was_ fantastic. Then it transitioned to abysmal over night when they switched to usage based billing. Now, if you put the same 50 USD towards GitHub copilot compared to Codex, I\u2019m pretty sure Codex gives you 20x the usage or something. Really sucks for us who are stuck with GitHub copilot at work for compliance reasons.", "context": "stuck with GitHub Copilot at work for compliance reasons", "use_case": "AI coding at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"}, {"id": 774005040, "item_id": 48375315, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375315", "by": "sccxy", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "after pricing change I have already used 26% this month with very light usage.", "excerpt": "Looks good, but after pricing change I have already used 26% this month with very light usage. Last month I used Copilot heavily, much much more than I usually do, but did not manage to use more than 58%.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub Copilot App"}, {"id": 773846832, "item_id": 48365427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365427", "by": "biglyburrito", "date": "2026-06-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Personally, I think it sucks: the tooling is inconsistent across VSCode and Visual Studio", "excerpt": "Burned through 50+% of my monthly quota today using Sonnet 4.6, after starting the day at 0%. Only used it on an average daily workload, same as what I'd done all last month, and I used maybe 52% throughout all of May. I don't really care all that much, because my employer is the one paying for Copilot & wants us all using it. Personally, I think it sucks: the tooling is inconsistent across VSCode and Visual Studio, ", "context": "employee whose employer pays for Copilot", "use_case": "employer-provided AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold"}]}, {"text": " and some find its automated reviews noisy and its output mediocre.", "cites": [{"id": 804830448, "item_id": 50301903, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301903", "by": "yulaow", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Most comments were garbage", "excerpt": "We have removed it now, but when we used it we tweaked it to tell us only what it thoughts were major issues and ignore the rest because we had the same exact problem. Most comments were garbage", "context": "", "use_case": "automated PR review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?"}, {"id": 804172800, "item_id": 50260800, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260800", "by": "Roark66", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Github copilot review is s great example of the worst possible way this can be misused.", "excerpt": "Same here.LLMs are really good at code review providing they are configured correctly and have right docs and prompts. Github copilot review is s great example of the worst possible way this can be misused. It is the worst waste of tokens there is. Instead we use a process we created ourselves that runs opus or sonet (depending on complexity) to do a review (taking into account pr description and comments - copilot i", "context": "team with custom LLM review workflow", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "I will no longer upload to NEW"}, {"id": 801301600, "item_id": 50081350, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081350", "by": "beardbandit", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I highly recommend not using the Copilot harness. Even with the same model I found it produced mediocre results", "excerpt": "As a personal anecdote I highly recommend not using the Copilot harness. Even with the same model I found it produced mediocre results against the first class frontier model harnesses.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "IDE integration", "summary": "Commenters praise how well it works inside VS Code, and some also use it in IntelliJ.", "quotes": [{"id": 771611041, "item_id": 48225690, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225690", "by": "gbro3n", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been a huge fan of copilot in vscode, the tight integration beats the TUI harnesses", "excerpt": "I tried antigravity when it was first released, I didn't see an advantage over vscode, which it's forked from, and there were a few extensions I used that aren't supported. I've been a huge fan of copilot in vscode, the tight integration beats the TUI harnesses, and I've built some tooling around it (https://www.agentkanban.io) so I've got an integrated task board, context capture on the board and git worktree manage", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in VS Code", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"}, {"id": 798929089, "item_id": 49933068, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933068", "by": "nchmy", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Vscode copilot chat", "excerpt": "im with you. I have tried all the TUIs and immediately bounce off of them due to how utterly awful even just basic operations like text editing are. I use Vscode copilot chat because in the before-times I was perfectly happy with vscode. I cannot comprehend how people can now give all of that up for TUIs. It also has its Agents Window, Copilot CLI etc... and you can use any api keys, subscriptions etc... that you wan", "context": "", "use_case": "AI chat in editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pi 1.0"}, {"id": 787761681, "item_id": 49235105, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235105", "by": "pohl", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it has become ClaudeCode-esque of late: sub-agents, skills, tool-calling, hooks\u2026and continues to improve", "excerpt": "I use IntelliJ at my current gig\u2014and the CoPilot plugin for AI, because it\u2019s what I have access to\u2014and it has become ClaudeCode-esque of late: sub-agents, skills, tool-calling, hooks\u2026and continues to improve. It\u2019s unfortunate how the AI-in-a-sidebar UI kind of hides how sophisticated it has grown, but it\u2019s a glass of ice water in hell in an environment where you can\u2019t easily procure what you want.", "context": "limited to tools available at work", "use_case": "AI in IntelliJ", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"}]}, {"label": "Model choice", "summary": "Users like switching between models or pairing one model to write and another to review.", "quotes": [{"id": 777851600, "item_id": 48615725, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615725", "by": "jimbobimbo", "date": "2026-06-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use gh copilot and have opus interrogate me and write the plan, then gpt review the plan", "excerpt": "This is the way. I use gh copilot and have opus interrogate me and write the plan, then gpt review the plan and provide feedback; repeat this multiple times until gpt is either satisfied or starts to nitpick on unimportant stuff. Then sanity check the plan myself and have gpt implement it. Each implementation is also reviewed by me before merging to master. I complete PRs only when I'm satisfied with the implementati", "context": "", "use_case": "planning and implementation workflow", "switched_from": "", "story": "When I reject AI code even if it works"}, {"id": 785218384, "item_id": 49076149, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076149", "by": "Kon5ole", "date": "2026-07-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "One thing I miss after ditching Copilot (it got too expensive) was how I could trivially ask for features to be written by one model and verified by another.", "excerpt": ">My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That\u2019s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. When you start getting good results from agents you soon realize you are the bottleneck. Automating the verification of the code is the way to go, otherwise it's just not worth it. It takes longer to read and understand code than to write code, so why bother with agents if you are ", "context": "", "use_case": "multi-model code writing and verification", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code"}, {"id": 799451440, "item_id": 49965715, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965715", "by": "bluGill", "date": "2026-10-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "These days auto has always been good enough and so I\"m glad I don't have to be the expert.", "excerpt": "Do I need to become an expert on all the LLM models, or can someone else make a decision? In my case I've been given co-pilot which gives a discount if I use \"auto\" which is to say I let the system choose the model. A few months ago I often found auto not good enough and switched models manually at extra cost, but I never wanted to become an expert in this. These days auto has always been good enough and so I\"m glad ", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding with auto model selection", "switched_from": "", "story": "Spending on AI is becoming almost impossible for businesses to budget"}]}, {"label": "PR reviews", "summary": "Its pull request reviews look at the whole repo and catch valid issues people missed.", "quotes": [{"id": 795524688, "item_id": 49720293, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720293", "by": "therealdrag0", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "GitHub\u2019s built in Copilot review for example will checkout the whole repo and do a broad review. I found it to be WAY better", "excerpt": "Interesting. For example, GitHub\u2019s built in Copilot review for example will checkout the whole repo and do a broad review. I found it to be WAY better than our prior CI reviews that just looked at diff and had TONs of false positives. (We have also built our own review tools like Copilot that check out repo and they are similarly league ahead IMO than diff reviewers.) I found diff reviewers so heavy in false positive", "context": "", "use_case": "AI code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?"}, {"id": 777453376, "item_id": 48590836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590836", "by": "partsch", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It raises a lot of issues which are valid and which I never had found.", "excerpt": "Besides local review via codex and Claude code, we are using GitHub Copilot with custom instructions. We just assign it as a reviewer in GitHub and a couple minutes later, the review is done. It raises a lot of issues which are valid and which I never had found. https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/tutorials/customize-code-review", "context": "", "use_case": "AI code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?"}, {"id": 777477921, "item_id": 48592370, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592370", "by": "spgorbatiuk", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "having Copilot read through the PR is complementary and helps to catch some things that slipped through", "excerpt": "Frankly, coding with Claude Code and having Copilot read through the PR is complementary and helps to catch some things that slipped through", "context": "", "use_case": "PR review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?"}]}, {"label": "Cheap plans", "summary": "The $10 plan was seen as a good deal for light or personal use.", "quotes": [{"id": 771937664, "item_id": 48246104, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246104", "by": "cbdevidal", "date": "2026-05-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I\u2019ve been quite content with CoPilot\u2019s $10/mo plan.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been quite content with CoPilot\u2019s $10/mo plan. Still offers access to Claude models (limited tokens) but has no time limits like the $20 Claude plan, so no interruptions in work flow. I use one of the free models for the more pedestrian tasks then sic Claude on the particularly thorny problems. Works very well for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun"}, {"id": 765701984, "item_id": 47856374, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856374", "by": "jareds", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "That was a great deal for my limited personal programming.", "excerpt": "How long until the $10 Github Copilot subscription goes away? That was a great deal for my limited personal programming. The only reason I switched from it to Claude was to get coding and general ai in a single bill.", "context": "", "use_case": "personal programming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code no longer included in Pro tier"}, {"id": 797634304, "item_id": 49852144, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852144", "by": "preommr", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Copilot was fantastic, it's usage was insane because it was by request not tokens for the longest time.", "excerpt": "Copilot was fantastic, it's usage was insane because it was by request not tokens for the longest time. You could make a long markdown file with lots of planned edits, and just let it rip. It also had some really good models for basically free while it was in preview instead of being tied to a single provider. And finally, it's vscode integration was really good. I use codex now, and changes to a thread are in this a", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in VS Code", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"}]}, {"label": "GitHub workflow", "summary": "The Copilot app works across GitHub repos and handles PRs inside the app.", "quotes": [{"id": 771933440, "item_id": 48245840, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245840", "by": "zabil", "date": "2026-05-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I find the copilot app better integrated for the PR workflow with PR management available in the app.", "excerpt": "I switched from Claude code to the GitHub copilot app recently. Since our repositories are hosted on GitHub I find the copilot app better integrated for the PR workflow with PR management available in the app. I don\u2019t think I miss any of the features of Claude code I never thought I would make the switch but copilot upped the game. Also it became very hard to convince management to keep both Claude code and GitHub Co", "context": "Team with repos on GitHub", "use_case": "PR workflow", "switched_from": "Claude Code", "story": "Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun"}, {"id": 799988080, "item_id": 49999255, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999255", "by": "hbn", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's been super helpful to just tell it to reference other repos for patterns or integrations", "excerpt": "What does it even mean to use \"Copilot\" these days? I use the Github Copilot app at work but it's really just a tool that gives models access to our Github repos and my local clones of them, and it's been super helpful to just tell it to reference other repos for patterns or integrations or whatever, get agents and an orchestrator to look at multiple repos to make a change across several projects and then implement t", "context": "uses it at work", "use_case": "multi-repo agent changes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"}, {"id": 779489488, "item_id": 48718093, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48718093", "by": "zihotki", "date": "2026-06-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a good tool helps a lot once I switched to Github Copilot app. It solved the friction and mental tax for me.", "excerpt": "I found that a good tool helps a lot once I switched to Github Copilot app. It solved the friction and mental tax for me. I easily manage 4 sessions in parallel on same or different projects while 2 was max in the past. The bottleneck now is only in review and decision making.", "context": "", "use_case": "managing parallel agent sessions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"}]}, {"label": "Agent features", "summary": "It has added sub-agents, skills, hooks and mid-run steering.", "quotes": [{"id": 787761681, "item_id": 49235105, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235105", "by": "pohl", "date": "2026-08-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it has become ClaudeCode-esque of late: sub-agents, skills, tool-calling, hooks\u2026and continues to improve", "excerpt": "I use IntelliJ at my current gig\u2014and the CoPilot plugin for AI, because it\u2019s what I have access to\u2014and it has become ClaudeCode-esque of late: sub-agents, skills, tool-calling, hooks\u2026and continues to improve. It\u2019s unfortunate how the AI-in-a-sidebar UI kind of hides how sophisticated it has grown, but it\u2019s a glass of ice water in hell in an environment where you can\u2019t easily procure what you want.", "context": "limited to tools available at work", "use_case": "AI in IntelliJ", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"}, {"id": 770589008, "item_id": 48161813, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161813", "by": "bel8", "date": "2026-05-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "GitHub Copilot has a \"steer with message\" feature where I can course correct mid execution. I use it often.", "excerpt": "Great article but I'm confused on one thing. The article claims steering only works in local models, but GitHub Copilot has a \"steer with message\" feature where I can course correct mid execution. I use it often. I think these are different kinds of steering right? Agent steering probably inserts another user message between the harnesses own ping-pong between harness and the LLM. - https://docs.github.com/en/copilot", "context": "", "use_case": "agent steering during coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Pricing change", "summary": "The move from per-request to per-token billing used up quotas fast and pushed people to cancel.", "quotes": [{"id": 774009584, "item_id": 48375599, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375599", "by": "bel8", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "GitHub Copilot had competitive pricing until yesterday when they changed from per-request to one of the most expensive per-token quotas.", "excerpt": "It's a start and I welcome competition but I don't think I ever used small cloud models like Haiku 4.5. They are cute but for serious coding they tend to waste your expensive time. And this certainly wont bring me back to GitHub Copilot which I cancelled yesterday. GitHub Copilot had competitive pricing until yesterday when they changed from per-request to one of the most expensive per-token quotas. Seriously, take a", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params"}, {"id": 797675792, "item_id": 49854737, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854737", "by": "gentlewater", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then it transitioned to abysmal over night when they switched to usage based billing.", "excerpt": "It _was_ fantastic. Then it transitioned to abysmal over night when they switched to usage based billing. Now, if you put the same 50 USD towards GitHub copilot compared to Codex, I\u2019m pretty sure Codex gives you 20x the usage or something. Really sucks for us who are stuck with GitHub copilot at work for compliance reasons.", "context": "stuck with GitHub Copilot at work for compliance reasons", "use_case": "AI coding at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"}, {"id": 774005040, "item_id": 48375315, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375315", "by": "sccxy", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "after pricing change I have already used 26% this month with very light usage.", "excerpt": "Looks good, but after pricing change I have already used 26% this month with very light usage. Last month I used Copilot heavily, much much more than I usually do, but did not manage to use more than 58%.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub Copilot App"}]}, {"label": "Noisy reviews", "summary": "Automated reviews produced many low-value comments and wasted tokens.", "quotes": [{"id": 804830448, "item_id": 50301903, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301903", "by": "yulaow", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Most comments were garbage", "excerpt": "We have removed it now, but when we used it we tweaked it to tell us only what it thoughts were major issues and ignore the rest because we had the same exact problem. Most comments were garbage", "context": "", "use_case": "automated PR review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?"}, {"id": 804172800, "item_id": 50260800, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260800", "by": "Roark66", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Github copilot review is s great example of the worst possible way this can be misused.", "excerpt": "Same here.LLMs are really good at code review providing they are configured correctly and have right docs and prompts. Github copilot review is s great example of the worst possible way this can be misused. It is the worst waste of tokens there is. Instead we use a process we created ourselves that runs opus or sonet (depending on complexity) to do a review (taking into account pr description and comments - copilot i", "context": "team with custom LLM review workflow", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "I will no longer upload to NEW"}, {"id": 804175632, "item_id": 50260977, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260977", "by": "Roark66", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Not only did copilot eat up all my bloody llm credits", "excerpt": "You laugh, but that is exactly what I did. I was migrating cicd from Jenkins to gh workflows for some 70-80 apps each in its own repository and support team in a random timezone. I had to open 2-3 PRs in each repo and a day or two before someone enabled \"copilot reviews\" in our github org. Not only did copilot eat up all my bloody llm credits (thankfully it was almost end of the month) it created few silly comments o", "context": "migrating CI/CD for 70-80 repos", "use_case": "PR reviews", "switched_from": "", "story": "I will no longer upload to NEW"}]}, {"label": "Output quality", "summary": "Some found the harness gave mediocre results, ignored instructions or got lost while editing.", "quotes": [{"id": 801301600, "item_id": 50081350, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081350", "by": "beardbandit", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I highly recommend not using the Copilot harness. Even with the same model I found it produced mediocre results", "excerpt": "As a personal anecdote I highly recommend not using the Copilot harness. Even with the same model I found it produced mediocre results against the first class frontier model harnesses.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 769508578, "item_id": 48094286, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094286", "by": "gajo357", "date": "2026-05-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Github Copilot is the worst. It usually gets lost while editing some file. And it is incredibly slow.", "excerpt": "Manus was great, used it for months for exploring ideas, making reports and such. I dropped it when I heard that Meta was buying it. Then I used Gemini and it was great as well, but very limited when it comes to coding (in Antigravity) because instead of giving me credits for coding in the subscription they give you GB on Google Drive. So you burn through the coding very quickly. Github Copilot is the worst. It usual", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which LLM are you using to evaluate your ideas?"}, {"id": 804022608, "item_id": 50251413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251413", "by": "gwbas1c", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've updated copilot's instructions to explicitly forbid this, but it still invents justifications for breaking the rule.", "excerpt": "I'm finding that some models ignore explicit instructions for reasons that I don't understand. In my case I use copilot with Visual Studio. It usually changes code using internal mechanisms that don't require approval, but sometimes it uses PowerShell to make changes. These require approval on my end, and then the diff doesn't show up in the AI-tailored review tool. I've updated copilot's instructions to explicitly f", "context": "", "use_case": "coding in Visual Studio", "switched_from": "", "story": "Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model"}]}, {"label": "Training on data", "summary": "Users were opted in to having interaction data used for training unless they opted out.", "quotes": [{"id": 792632993, "item_id": 49539562, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539562", "by": "rectang", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Microsoft already did a rug pull on me and opted me in to training months after I signed up with Github Copilot.", "excerpt": "I pay for a subscription to Duck.ai mainly because I don't want to be constantly fighting my vendor to protect my privacy. Microsoft already did a rug pull on me and opted me in to training months after I signed up with Github Copilot. It exhausting and ultimately futile to monitor these companies. It's not guaranteed that Duck.ai will continue to uphold its promise of not training on your sessions \u2014 if the company g", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"}, {"id": 781333760, "item_id": 48833360, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833360", "by": "simonw", "date": "2026-07-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "pieces of your private code can end up in training data if you're using Copilot with it and don't opt out", "excerpt": "That Reddit post failed to link to the announcement, so I tracked it down: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/ > From April 24 onward, interaction data\u2014specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context\u2014from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out. [...] > This program doe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"}, {"id": 775829200, "item_id": 48489325, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489325", "by": "monegator", "date": "2026-06-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "microsoft was training copilot on private repos", "excerpt": "Ah, if (2) happens i will just walk out. No more brain. I refuse to work on those conditions. And if that's the situation everywhere, i'll just go back being a tradesman, i love working with my hands, and there's been abundance of work for any skilled individual in any trade for more than a decade. Now, my attitude may change when we get back to decent prices for hardware capable of running local models. I can be fin", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"}]}, {"label": "Confusing billing", "summary": "Billing settings and premium requests are hard to understand, and some paid for seats nobody used.", "quotes": [{"id": 780162768, "item_id": 48760173, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760173", "by": "boronine", "date": "2026-07-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "you will waste hours navigating their billing settings using various out-of-date documentation", "excerpt": "For any small team wanting to try Copilot, heed my warning that you will waste hours navigating their billing settings using various out-of-date documentation. Long story short, I finally got an email from them saying that \"Copilot Business is available for teams purchasing 10 or more licenses\". This is undocumented but other people are reporting the same: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/199346 We're st", "context": "small team", "use_case": "team AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"}, {"id": 765723280, "item_id": 47857705, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857705", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I have no idea what a premium request is and it's all just too complicated to use.", "excerpt": "Oh nuts, I forgot I was on Copilot. I used to use it for auto-complete and so on. I haven't used it in over a year and I'm still paying for it. If you're like me you'll find it here: https://github.com/settings/billing/licensing And you can then cancel it. I have no idea what a premium request is and it's all just too complicated to use.", "context": "", "use_case": "auto-complete", "switched_from": "", "story": "Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans"}, {"id": 766809200, "item_id": 47925575, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925575", "by": "insane_dreamer", "date": "2026-04-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "used the opportunity to cancel CoPilot altogether", "excerpt": "Glad this was announced because I didn't even realize that our (small) team has been paying $20/month for Github Copilot when none of us are using it, so used the opportunity to cancel CoPilot altogether. I think it was free when I first activated it (this was also before Claude, Codex, Gemini, and while not that great, it was why not), and didn't realize it had switched to paid and bundled with our Github bill, and ", "context": "small team", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"}]}, {"label": "Speed", "summary": "Some commenters call it slow.", "quotes": [{"id": 769508578, "item_id": 48094286, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48094286", "by": "gajo357", "date": "2026-05-11", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Github Copilot is the worst. It usually gets lost while editing some file. And it is incredibly slow.", "excerpt": "Manus was great, used it for months for exploring ideas, making reports and such. I dropped it when I heard that Meta was buying it. Then I used Gemini and it was great as well, but very limited when it comes to coding (in Antigravity) because instead of giving me credits for coding in the subscription they give you GB on Google Drive. So you burn through the coding very quickly. Github Copilot is the worst. It usual", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which LLM are you using to evaluate your ideas?"}, {"id": 802505457, "item_id": 50156591, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50156591", "by": "adeptima", "date": "2026-10-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "copilot is too slow for them too.", "excerpt": "friend of mine told me Antropic turned off 200 usd a month subscription, refused to extend and switched to usage base for large cyberop vendor he works for when this happened PR rate dropped 95% in the first day, thousands devs, managers started to panic and downscaling all AI first intiatives and cap 500 usd a month token usage . most tokens were burned in the first day of the week. as management got pissed, M$ peop", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO"}]}], "who": [{"by": "greggoB", "context": "works at Sony", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999734", "date": "2026-10-07"}, {"by": "hbn", "context": "uses it at work", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999255", "date": "2026-10-07"}, {"by": "ajitgoel", "context": "hiring at Empower Pharmacy", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982648", "date": "2026-10-06"}, {"by": "phoghed", "context": "work provides only Copilot and Claude enterprise", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926599", "date": "2026-10-01"}, {"by": "abumsoo", "context": "full stack engineer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926303", "date": "2026-10-01"}, {"by": "selicos", "context": "infra engineer", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744479", "date": "2026-09-17"}, {"by": "cortesoft", "context": "programmer for 35 years", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662703", "date": "2026-09-11"}, {"by": "knombertus", "context": "gives agents short tasks under 30 min", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541063", "date": "2026-09-02"}, {"by": "jaccola", "context": "startup with 15 engineers", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319391", "date": "2026-08-16"}, {"by": "gexla", "context": "early GitHub user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311226", "date": "2026-08-15"}, {"by": "to11mtm", "context": "Works at an org that uses Copilot internally and with vendors", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280102", "date": "2026-08-12"}, {"by": "agentbriefstudi", "context": "independent AI coding-workflow specialist", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252734", "date": "2026-08-10"}], "tags": ["for VS Code users", "for teams on GitHub", "for PR review", "for JetBrains users", "for light personal use"], "use_cases": ["ai coding", "coding", "coding assistant", "ai coding at work", "ai coding assistant", "code review"], "compared": [{"slug": "claude-code", "name": "Claude Code", "co": 50, "switched_from": 3, "switched_to": 8}, {"slug": "codex", "name": "Codex", "co": 32, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 3}, {"slug": "cursor", "name": "Cursor", "co": 22, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "opencode", "name": "OpenCode", "co": 17, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 4}, {"slug": "claude", "name": "Claude", "co": 21, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "visual-studio-code", "name": "Visual Studio Code", "co": 19, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "claude-opus", "name": "Claude Opus", "co": 16, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "copilot", "name": "Copilot", "co": 11, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 797724208, "item_id": 49857763, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857763", "by": "jonmagic", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I tried plan mode when we first added it to github copilot and it didn\u2019t stick for me, until very recently", "excerpt": "(Disclaimer, I work at github) I tried plan mode when we first added it to github copilot and it didn\u2019t stick for me, until very recently, when I used it the way you describe. I was just putting it too early in the process, turns out I have to do a bit of exploration and discovery on my own and most of the time I can skip plan but now I have an intuition for when to engage it so it can interview me to clarify the las", "context": "works at GitHub", "use_case": "plan mode for coding tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Plan mode is dead"}, {"id": 774744849, "item_id": 48421553, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421553", "by": "vesche", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I knew that day that StackOverflow was dead and my mind was blown.", "excerpt": "Three moments stick out to me. 1) When I used ChatGPT for the very first time. I still remember, I asked it: \u201cWrite an advertisement to convince people to visit the North Pole.\u201d It rapidly returned a witty, accurate, multi-paragraph text of exactly what I wanted that exceed my expectations. ChatGPT was the beginning of the modern AI boom and I remember being immediately impressed. 2) When I was working at GitHub, the", "context": "worked at GitHub", "use_case": "coding assistant in editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "What was your \"Oh Shit\" moment with GenAI?"}, {"id": 760776976, "item_id": 47548561, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548561", "by": "martinwoodward", "date": "2026-03-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We\u2019ve been training on our internal usage for just over a year and have seen some major improvements.", "excerpt": "It wasn\u2019t previously opt-in. Previously we didn\u2019t do any training on usage. However as other products have come into the market they do train on usage. We\u2019ve been training on our internal usage for just over a year and have seen some major improvements. For details see of the types of improvements we\u2019ve seen from training on our internal usage check out this article: https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/cop", "context": "GitHub employee", "use_case": "AI coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"}, {"id": 758279920, "item_id": 47392495, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392495", "by": "fandango1", "date": "2026-03-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "we have been using the Github Copilot very regularly. It gives us unlimited Opus credits.", "excerpt": "So I am a software engineer at Microsoft, so we have been using the Github Copilot very regularly. It gives us unlimited Opus credits. The good thing is that the work gets much quicker than before, and it's actually a boon for that The issue is inflated expectations For example: If a work item ideally would take two weeks before AI, it is expected now to be done in like 2 days. So we still need to find a sweet spot s", "context": "software engineer at Microsoft", "use_case": "daily coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923357", "title": "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573860", "title": "Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?", "mentions": 6}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413629", "title": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388646", "title": "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756602", "title": "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587808", "title": "Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?", "mentions": 3}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 3, "warn": 1}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 6, "warn": 6, "recommend": 3}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 8, "recommend": 5, "warn": 6, "compare": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 5, "recommend": 3, "compare": 1}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 8, "recommend": 6, "warn": 2}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 10, "recommend": 9, "warn": 5}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 4, "warn": 2, "recommend": 5}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 8, "warn": 6, "neutral": 12, "compare": 1}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 5, "warn": 3}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 10, "warn": 5, "recommend": 2}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 7, "warn": 3, "recommend": 6, "compare": 2}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 6, "recommend": 4, "warn": 6}}, "quotes": [{"id": 804925043, "item_id": 50307815, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50307815", "by": "sybhn", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "(and Copilot at work)", "excerpt": "If you run a bunch of coding agents in parallel (Claude Code, Codex and Copilot in my case), on different projects, you've probably noticed that it only works for so long until you run into coordination problems. I tried relying on GitHub primitives and conventions only: PRs, issues, labels. It works in long-lived interactive sessions, but with short-lived bots things fall through the cracks: reviews aren't always ac", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Bot_board \u2013 A message board for code harnesses collaboration"}, {"id": 804830448, "item_id": 50301903, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301903", "by": "yulaow", "date": "2026-10-30", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Most comments were garbage", "excerpt": "We have removed it now, but when we used it we tweaked it to tell us only what it thoughts were major issues and ignore the rest because we had the same exact problem. Most comments were garbage", "context": "", "use_case": "automated PR review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?"}, {"id": 804175632, "item_id": 50260977, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260977", "by": "Roark66", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Not only did copilot eat up all my bloody llm credits", "excerpt": "You laugh, but that is exactly what I did. I was migrating cicd from Jenkins to gh workflows for some 70-80 apps each in its own repository and support team in a random timezone. I had to open 2-3 PRs in each repo and a day or two before someone enabled \"copilot reviews\" in our github org. Not only did copilot eat up all my bloody llm credits (thankfully it was almost end of the month) it created few silly comments o", "context": "migrating CI/CD for 70-80 repos", "use_case": "PR reviews", "switched_from": "", "story": "I will no longer upload to NEW"}, {"id": 804172800, "item_id": 50260800, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260800", "by": "Roark66", "date": "2026-10-27", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Github copilot review is s great example of the worst possible way this can be misused.", "excerpt": "Same here.LLMs are really good at code review providing they are configured correctly and have right docs and prompts. Github copilot review is s great example of the worst possible way this can be misused. It is the worst waste of tokens there is. Instead we use a process we created ourselves that runs opus or sonet (depending on complexity) to do a review (taking into account pr description and comments - copilot i", "context": "team with custom LLM review workflow", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "I will no longer upload to NEW"}, {"id": 804022608, "item_id": 50251413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251413", "by": "gwbas1c", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've updated copilot's instructions to explicitly forbid this, but it still invents justifications for breaking the rule.", "excerpt": "I'm finding that some models ignore explicit instructions for reasons that I don't understand. In my case I use copilot with Visual Studio. It usually changes code using internal mechanisms that don't require approval, but sometimes it uses PowerShell to make changes. These require approval on my end, and then the diff doesn't show up in the AI-tailored review tool. I've updated copilot's instructions to explicitly f", "context": "", "use_case": "coding in Visual Studio", "switched_from": "", "story": "Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model"}, {"id": 802677250, "item_id": 50167328, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167328", "by": "anoojb", "date": "2026-10-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "When I use GitHub Copilot (for work) with Anthropic models I can easily rack up quite a significant bill.", "excerpt": "I've heard that folks using using a mid-tier Anthropic model like Sonnet 5.5 easily run into limits. When I use GitHub Copilot (for work) with Anthropic models I can easily rack up quite a significant bill. This is why I'm comparing value for the money. While Google may not have the \"best\" models, what's the point if you hit a wall with Claude Code? The extra baseline quota with Anti-gravity could be worth it.", "context": "", "use_case": "work AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Best value/money AI coding plan bundle?"}, {"id": 802505457, "item_id": 50156591, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50156591", "by": "adeptima", "date": "2026-10-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "copilot is too slow for them too.", "excerpt": "friend of mine told me Antropic turned off 200 usd a month subscription, refused to extend and switched to usage base for large cyberop vendor he works for when this happened PR rate dropped 95% in the first day, thousands devs, managers started to panic and downscaling all AI first intiatives and cap 500 usd a month token usage . most tokens were burned in the first day of the week. as management got pissed, M$ peop", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO"}, {"id": 802361168, "item_id": 50147573, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50147573", "by": "slyall", "date": "2026-10-19", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Personally at home I use the free github copilot and then openrouter when that runs out.", "excerpt": "Personally at home I use the free github copilot and then openrouter when that runs out. Last month I used $0.90 of openrouter. Zero so far this month. When my bill starts hitting double digits I'll consider options. Different matter at work but even there we are paying for API costs and have a monthly allowance (starts at $200/month but increases fairly easy to get)", "context": "", "use_case": "home coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?"}, {"id": 801301600, "item_id": 50081350, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50081350", "by": "beardbandit", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I highly recommend not using the Copilot harness. Even with the same model I found it produced mediocre results", "excerpt": "As a personal anecdote I highly recommend not using the Copilot harness. Even with the same model I found it produced mediocre results against the first class frontier model harnesses.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 4 Argon"}, {"id": 800862961, "item_id": 50053935, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50053935", "by": "rwyinuse", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "My company has largely switched to Luna after Microsoft raised prices for Copilot.", "excerpt": "Even cheap models like GPT 6 Luna do decent job in programming these days. Token prices would need to rise A LOT to make companies return to writing code by hand, instead of these models. My company has largely switched to Luna after Microsoft raised prices for Copilot.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"}, {"id": 799995744, "item_id": 49999734, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999734", "by": "greggoB", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "At Sony we use Copilot  (as an MS enterprise customer)", "excerpt": "> Peeps can check their usage which has a good breakdown Must be nice. At Sony we use Copilot (as an MS enterprise customer) and restrictions to token usage circa June have resulted in a hunger games of who-can-use-them-all-first, with the pool usually drying up by the 10th day of each month. As for usage breakdown: we got a manually-published table most days just showing per-user token usage, until eventually we wer", "context": "works at Sony", "use_case": "enterprise AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"}, {"id": 799988080, "item_id": 49999255, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49999255", "by": "hbn", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it's been super helpful to just tell it to reference other repos for patterns or integrations", "excerpt": "What does it even mean to use \"Copilot\" these days? I use the Github Copilot app at work but it's really just a tool that gives models access to our Github repos and my local clones of them, and it's been super helpful to just tell it to reference other repos for patterns or integrations or whatever, get agents and an orchestrator to look at multiple repos to make a change across several projects and then implement t", "context": "uses it at work", "use_case": "multi-repo agent changes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"}, {"id": 799722371, "item_id": 49982648, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982648", "by": "ajitgoel", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "if you already lean on tools like Copilot/LLMs, you\u2019ll be at home.", "excerpt": "Empower Pharmacy is hiring engineers to work on event-driven, distributed systems that actually run a real-world business (regulated pharma), not ad tech or yet another CRUD SaaS. We just filled one Staff Engineer role directly from my last LinkedIn post (thanks to everyone who shared/applied). Now we\u2019re expanding the team: - 1 Staff Software Engineer - 4 Senior Software Engineers - 4 Software Engineers (new grad / e", "context": "hiring at Empower Pharmacy", "use_case": "AI-assisted development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 799451440, "item_id": 49965715, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965715", "by": "bluGill", "date": "2026-10-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "These days auto has always been good enough and so I\"m glad I don't have to be the expert.", "excerpt": "Do I need to become an expert on all the LLM models, or can someone else make a decision? In my case I've been given co-pilot which gives a discount if I use \"auto\" which is to say I let the system choose the model. A few months ago I often found auto not good enough and switched models manually at extra cost, but I never wanted to become an expert in this. These days auto has always been good enough and so I\"m glad ", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding with auto model selection", "switched_from": "", "story": "Spending on AI is becoming almost impossible for businesses to budget"}, {"id": 798929089, "item_id": 49933068, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933068", "by": "nchmy", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Vscode copilot chat", "excerpt": "im with you. I have tried all the TUIs and immediately bounce off of them due to how utterly awful even just basic operations like text editing are. I use Vscode copilot chat because in the before-times I was perfectly happy with vscode. I cannot comprehend how people can now give all of that up for TUIs. It also has its Agents Window, Copilot CLI etc... and you can use any api keys, subscriptions etc... that you wan", "context": "", "use_case": "AI chat in editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pi 1.0"}, {"id": 798825584, "item_id": 49926599, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926599", "by": "phoghed", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like copilot better than Claude for the most part.", "excerpt": "Personally I use gh copilot in vscode and make new worktrees when I want parallel agents that are both going to write code. For research, planning, figuring out bugs, etc I usually don\u2019t bother creating the worktree until I\u2019ve decided on the implementation. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s better workflows and software, but all I\u2019ve got for work is gh copilot and Claude enterprise. I like copilot better than Claude for the most part", "context": "work provides only Copilot and Claude enterprise", "use_case": "coding in VS Code with worktrees", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pi 1.0"}, {"id": 798820849, "item_id": 49926303, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926303", "by": "abumsoo", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Claude Code, GitHub Copilot", "excerpt": "Location: Southern California, USA Remote: Open to in-office, hybrid, or remote Willing to relocate: Yes, preferably within the USA Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Python, C++, PostgreSQL, Linux/UNIX, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot R\u00e9sum\u00e9/CV: https://github.com/abumsoo/abumsoo/blob/main/BumSooKim_Resume.pdf GitHub: https://github.com/abumsoo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bumskim/ Email: bum.s.kim42@", "context": "full stack engineer", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 798534034, "item_id": 49908377, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908377", "by": "sunaookami", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "when GitHub Copilot gave you 300 requests for like 10$", "excerpt": "Yep, I've used Pi in the past (see my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908276) but I don't like the direction it went (selling out, forgetting their principles/throwing them out). And since Anthropic wants you to use Claude Code with their sub I just switched to CC again. I've only used Pi for a few months though when GitHub Copilot gave you 300 requests for like 10$.", "context": "", "use_case": "model access for Pi", "switched_from": "", "story": "You said no MCP"}, {"id": 797675792, "item_id": 49854737, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854737", "by": "gentlewater", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Then it transitioned to abysmal over night when they switched to usage based billing.", "excerpt": "It _was_ fantastic. Then it transitioned to abysmal over night when they switched to usage based billing. Now, if you put the same 50 USD towards GitHub copilot compared to Codex, I\u2019m pretty sure Codex gives you 20x the usage or something. Really sucks for us who are stuck with GitHub copilot at work for compliance reasons.", "context": "stuck with GitHub Copilot at work for compliance reasons", "use_case": "AI coding at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"}, {"id": 797634304, "item_id": 49852144, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852144", "by": "preommr", "date": "2026-09-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Copilot was fantastic, it's usage was insane because it was by request not tokens for the longest time.", "excerpt": "Copilot was fantastic, it's usage was insane because it was by request not tokens for the longest time. You could make a long markdown file with lots of planned edits, and just let it rip. It also had some really good models for basically free while it was in preview instead of being tied to a single provider. And finally, it's vscode integration was really good. I use codex now, and changes to a thread are in this a", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in VS Code", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot"}, {"id": 797465472, "item_id": 49841592, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841592", "by": "sublimefire", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have not seen much gain personally at that period except in the last 12 months.", "excerpt": "> we found no immediate increase in key engineering metrics such as monthly pull requests and lines of code > To establish a before-Copilot baseline, we used data from April, May, and June 2024. After-Copilot data was represented by the period of September, October, and November 2024 > GitHub Copilot usage varied significantly among engineers, the tool demonstrably fostered positive changes in perceived engineer valu", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Efficiency-Throughput Gap with GitHub Copilot"}, {"id": 797020784, "item_id": 49813799, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813799", "by": "erwindegroot", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "compare", "quote": "it suggested that I use both side by side (copilot for inside the IDE and Claude for 'extra' prompts)", "excerpt": "That's a good suggestion. I actually asked Copilot, but the answer seems to biased. It wouldn't give a clear answer on how the two compare, but it suggested that I use both side by side (copilot for inside the IDE and Claude for 'extra' prompts). I was hoping someone had some experience with this. I would definitely value the conclusion of an actual human on this :)", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE coding assistance", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How do GitHub Copilot and Anthropic Claude compare in cost?"}, {"id": 795911670, "item_id": 49744479, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744479", "by": "selicos", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "My employer has us using Copilot a lot, and it works well enough", "excerpt": "So I have to connect over MCP or log into github through the page to share anything? How about being able to post a markdown summary of my setup instead of plugging my credentials and tools into a third party site? Strix HALO 128gb - Framework mainboard in a custom SFF PC. Just moved from Ubuntu to Fedora 44. Using: LM Studio (primary), Lemonade, not yet got into vLLM and llama.cpp directyly after moving to Fedora. R", "context": "infra engineer", "use_case": "work coding assistance", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"}, {"id": 795816432, "item_id": 49738527, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738527", "by": "chris_money202", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use copilot as my daily driver", "excerpt": "I use copilot as my daily driver and haven\u2019t seen much difference with it and Claude code\u2019s output. I think your answer is you\u2019ve been using weaker models, that\u2019s comparing apples to oranges. Have to try the same model on both harnesses. Also have to remember that GHCP harness is model agnostic, Claude and OpenAI can tightly couple their harness to their model so they will always have a slight edge initially. Making ", "context": "", "use_case": "daily coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating the GitHub Copilot Runtime to Rust, Using Copilot"}, {"id": 795763299, "item_id": 49735206, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49735206", "by": "chrismarlow9", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Symlink the global MD files to a single file I control that is versioned.", "excerpt": "Symlink the global MD files to a single file I control that is versioned. Define my own general spec and workflow terminology using markdown files in this universal MD. ``` ~/.config/opencode/AGENTS.md ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md ~/.codex/AGENTS.md ~/.copilot/copilot-instructions.md ~/.gemini/GEMINI.md ``` Define it as a graph and iterate. I use more tokens, but I can also use more tools without disruption. Delegating markdo", "context": "", "use_case": "shared agent instructions", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenSpec \u2013 A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework"}, {"id": 795524688, "item_id": 49720293, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720293", "by": "therealdrag0", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "GitHub\u2019s built in Copilot review for example will checkout the whole repo and do a broad review. I found it to be WAY better", "excerpt": "Interesting. For example, GitHub\u2019s built in Copilot review for example will checkout the whole repo and do a broad review. I found it to be WAY better than our prior CI reviews that just looked at diff and had TONs of false positives. (We have also built our own review tools like Copilot that check out repo and they are similarly league ahead IMO than diff reviewers.) I found diff reviewers so heavy in false positive", "context": "", "use_case": "AI code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?"}, {"id": 794778129, "item_id": 49673633, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673633", "by": "hgoel", "date": "2026-09-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "For work, Github Copilot with either GPT 5 mini or toss up between Opus/Sol", "excerpt": "For personal needs I use a local Qwen3.8-Next-Flash setup on a GB10 cluster. For work, Github Copilot with either GPT 5 mini or toss up between Opus/Sol depending on the complexity of the task. Used to pay for a Claude 20x plan and did everything in Opus, but I hate how it talks now and recent events (OAI scooping, Anthropic's spying, third party Chinese model hosts stealing and selling credentials) have really pushe", "context": "", "use_case": "work coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"}, {"id": 794603249, "item_id": 49662703, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662703", "by": "cortesoft", "date": "2026-09-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The first programming AI I tried was github's copilot, and I was already astonished.", "excerpt": "This is exactly how I feel, and I have been trying to think how to articulate it. I love programming, and have loved it ever since I read the first page of my BASIC programming book 35 years ago and learned how to write a PRINT statement. I remember running into my parent's room as an 8 year old, telling them I knew how to make the computer print something. It was so exciting. I have never lost that excitement, but m", "context": "programmer for 35 years", "use_case": "code completion", "switched_from": "", "story": "Feeling Sad about AI"}, {"id": 794445043, "item_id": 49652815, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49652815", "by": "princevegeta89", "date": "2026-09-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm back to VsCode plus Copilot Pro.", "excerpt": "I used Windsurf for quite long and they're basically dead for now after they became Devin. Everything feels dull and they're always several features behind while Cursor is just killing it every other week. I'm back to VsCode plus Copilot Pro.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "Windsurf", "story": "Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra"}, {"id": 794391315, "item_id": 49649457, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649457", "by": "hightrix", "date": "2026-09-10", "stance": "compare", "quote": "It's a great product compared to Copilot.", "excerpt": "My company uses it. We have a bunch of seats in an enterprise plan and have been using it for 9 months or so. It's a great product compared to Copilot. It is also the first AI tool I used heavily outside of creating random images or one off questions. I'm now using all three, Devin, Claude, Codex. I'm finding Claude and Codex to be much better. One of my biggest gripes is that the web client and desktop client for De", "context": "company with enterprise plan seats", "use_case": "AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra"}, {"id": 793425025, "item_id": 49589064, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49589064", "by": "Rapzid", "date": "2026-09-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "AI code agent regressions Copilot and Claude silently slipped in behind remote FFs with shifting cohorts", "excerpt": "I was looking into some AI code agent regressions Copilot and Claude silently slipped in behind remote FFs with shifting cohorts(just to drive us insane, cause fuck us right): https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/80015 It's tsunami of AI vomit drowning out a few human posters. I can 100% empathize with OSS maintainers banning AI submissions.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "The revolt of the reader"}, {"id": 793162386, "item_id": 49572649, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572649", "by": "shubhamjain", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I started using OpenCode + GitHub Copilot", "excerpt": "> So this is just delegating certain work to dumber models? I certainly wouldn't use Gemini 2.5 Flash (!!?) for code writing as suggested. Why not, though? I started using OpenCode + GitHub Copilot, but I burned through my Claude Sonnet quota in just three days. I switched to GPT-5.4-mini, which uses far fewer tokens, and it\u2019s often just as good as Sonnet. I think optimizing token usage is a good exercise. We often a", "context": "", "use_case": "model access for coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%"}, {"id": 792657008, "item_id": 49541063, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541063", "by": "knombertus", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it all the time and don't know what more I could wish for.", "excerpt": "Is Github Copilot (integrated in VS Code) not a thing? I use it all the time and don't know what more I could wish for. Disclaimer: I don't let agents run on huge tasks for hours. Almost all tasks I give them are done in under 30 min.", "context": "gives agents short tasks under 30 min", "use_case": "coding agent in VS Code", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval \u2013 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x"}, {"id": 792632993, "item_id": 49539562, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539562", "by": "rectang", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Microsoft already did a rug pull on me and opted me in to training months after I signed up with Github Copilot.", "excerpt": "I pay for a subscription to Duck.ai mainly because I don't want to be constantly fighting my vendor to protect my privacy. Microsoft already did a rug pull on me and opted me in to training months after I signed up with Github Copilot. It exhausting and ultimately futile to monitor these companies. It's not guaranteed that Duck.ai will continue to uphold its promise of not training on your sessions \u2014 if the company g", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"}, {"id": 792579680, "item_id": 49536230, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536230", "by": "not_a_bot_4sho", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use GHCP but similar sentiment.", "excerpt": "I use GHCP but similar sentiment. Stopped using Anthropic models for this reason. Their prose become too obtuse and just... alien. No human talks or writes like that. It's incredibly taxing to deal with. Sticking to a mix of GPT and Gemini for now.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"}, {"id": 792008592, "item_id": 49500537, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500537", "by": "Mabusto", "date": "2026-08-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use CoPilot and I barely touch 40% token spend per month and to me it\u2019s the best way to work", "excerpt": "This has happened to me with Rust. I read the book, did the interactive tutorials and then started on a small project and couldn\u2019t really code anything! This is familiar territory for me as I prefer to do a breadth first survey of something I\u2019m trying to learn before digging in to an actual project with depth to make all the mistakes and blunders that make you actually good at something. AI can still be a huge help h", "context": "", "use_case": "coding Q&A while programming", "switched_from": "", "story": "No AI Fridays"}, {"id": 791306352, "item_id": 49456647, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456647", "by": "linesofcode", "date": "2026-08-26", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to use it very heavily during the original copilot days back in 2021 but it has been made totally obsolete by long running agents.", "excerpt": "I used to use it very heavily during the original copilot days back in 2021 but it has been made totally obsolete by long running agents. Can\u2019t say I miss it, I don\u2019t miss anything about writing syntax.", "context": "", "use_case": "code autocomplete", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Are you still using AI code autocomplete?"}, {"id": 790285169, "item_id": 49392823, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392823", "by": "solid_fuel", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "annoyed by VS Code injecting copilot and other \"helpers\"", "excerpt": "> Even if they're producing code by hand, surely they have LLM helpers by now. Nah. Most of my coworkers got so annoyed by VS Code injecting copilot and other \"helpers\" that they have switched to Kate or Vim. There are still a lot of places that value engineering excellence, and plenty of people who value doing the actual work and knowing that it is correct, instead of delegating to an LLM and hoping.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bun 1.4"}, {"id": 789660097, "item_id": 49353756, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353756", "by": "joshgachnang", "date": "2026-08-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We still have Github Copilot reviewing because it will (very occasionally) catch something BugBot missed, but the false positive rate is wayyyy higher", "excerpt": "BugBot in Cursor has been great, I rarely find myself looking at it and disagreeing, especially with medium/high impact. I also have a custom architecture reviewer that just runs Claude, that's been great for finding duplicate code, boundary breaking, etc. We still have Github Copilot reviewing because it will (very occasionally) catch something BugBot missed, but the false positive rate is wayyyy higher, to the poin", "context": "", "use_case": "AI code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What tools are you using for human code review of AI-assisted code?"}, {"id": 789566864, "item_id": 49347929, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347929", "by": "mikewarot", "date": "2026-08-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "it just created a massive pile of slop that kept growing and getting worse", "excerpt": "I'm old and retired, so I don't have to use it at all. I've got a github and ChatGPT subscription, and I've used both from time to time. I think it's important to disclaim AI generated content, as a matter of courtesy. The Github CoPilot proved interesting, but when I tried to use it to create a simulator for my BitGrid project, it just created a massive pile of slop that kept growing and getting worse. On its own, i", "context": "old and retired", "use_case": "writing a simulator", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Do you feel comfortable admitting that you use AI?"}, {"id": 785218384, "item_id": 49076149, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076149", "by": "Kon5ole", "date": "2026-07-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "One thing I miss after ditching Copilot (it got too expensive) was how I could trivially ask for features to be written by one model and verified by another.", "excerpt": ">My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That\u2019s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. When you start getting good results from agents you soon realize you are the bottleneck. Automating the verification of the code is the way to go, otherwise it's just not worth it. It takes longer to read and understand code than to write code, so why bother with agents if you are ", "context": "", "use_case": "multi-model code writing and verification", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code"}, {"id": 777851600, "item_id": 48615725, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615725", "by": "jimbobimbo", "date": "2026-06-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use gh copilot and have opus interrogate me and write the plan, then gpt review the plan", "excerpt": "This is the way. I use gh copilot and have opus interrogate me and write the plan, then gpt review the plan and provide feedback; repeat this multiple times until gpt is either satisfied or starts to nitpick on unimportant stuff. Then sanity check the plan myself and have gpt implement it. Each implementation is also reviewed by me before merging to master. I complete PRs only when I'm satisfied with the implementati", "context": "", "use_case": "planning and implementation workflow", "switched_from": "", "story": "When I reject AI code even if it works"}, {"id": 777453376, "item_id": 48590836, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590836", "by": "partsch", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It raises a lot of issues which are valid and which I never had found.", "excerpt": "Besides local review via codex and Claude code, we are using GitHub Copilot with custom instructions. We just assign it as a reviewer in GitHub and a couple minutes later, the review is done. It raises a lot of issues which are valid and which I never had found. https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/tutorials/customize-code-review", "context": "", "use_case": "AI code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What tools are you using for AI-assisted code review?"}, {"id": 774009584, "item_id": 48375599, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375599", "by": "bel8", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "GitHub Copilot had competitive pricing until yesterday when they changed from per-request to one of the most expensive per-token quotas.", "excerpt": "It's a start and I welcome competition but I don't think I ever used small cloud models like Haiku 4.5. They are cute but for serious coding they tend to waste your expensive time. And this certainly wont bring me back to GitHub Copilot which I cancelled yesterday. GitHub Copilot had competitive pricing until yesterday when they changed from per-request to one of the most expensive per-token quotas. Seriously, take a", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params"}, {"id": 774005040, "item_id": 48375315, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375315", "by": "sccxy", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "after pricing change I have already used 26% this month with very light usage.", "excerpt": "Looks good, but after pricing change I have already used 26% this month with very light usage. Last month I used Copilot heavily, much much more than I usually do, but did not manage to use more than 58%.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding assistant", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub Copilot App"}, {"id": 773846832, "item_id": 48365427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365427", "by": "biglyburrito", "date": "2026-06-01", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Personally, I think it sucks: the tooling is inconsistent across VSCode and Visual Studio", "excerpt": "Burned through 50+% of my monthly quota today using Sonnet 4.6, after starting the day at 0%. Only used it on an average daily workload, same as what I'd done all last month, and I used maybe 52% throughout all of May. I don't really care all that much, because my employer is the one paying for Copilot & wants us all using it. Personally, I think it sucks: the tooling is inconsistent across VSCode and Visual Studio, ", "context": "employee whose employer pays for Copilot", "use_case": "employer-provided AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold"}, {"id": 773798930, "item_id": 48362433, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362433", "by": "keithnz", "date": "2026-06-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Copilot reviews are good", "excerpt": "All this hate directed at github feels odd, every time I look into people complaining, or moving their projects off, other than a few related to genuine bugs, many just seem ideological. This article, calling it a crime against software? ... It's just silly. The article itself is a crime against articles, barely readable, weird ass colors. It mostly seems a regurgitation of other peoples complaints and mostly overblo", "context": "company user of GitHub", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitHub and the Crime Against Software"}, {"id": 771611041, "item_id": 48225690, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225690", "by": "gbro3n", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been a huge fan of copilot in vscode, the tight integration beats the TUI harnesses", "excerpt": "I tried antigravity when it was first released, I didn't see an advantage over vscode, which it's forked from, and there were a few extensions I used that aren't supported. I've been a huge fan of copilot in vscode, the tight integration beats the TUI harnesses, and I've built some tooling around it (https://www.agentkanban.io) so I've got an integrated task board, context capture on the board and git worktree manage", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding in VS Code", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"}]}