It’s like a fire extinguisher that helps engineers manage the problems they created to begin with.
Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
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Re: Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
#12I can only use approved AI tools with company code, which is only Copilot. I try to use it from time to time, but am continually disappointed. I can’t relate to any of the hype. When I end up using it, I think it slows me down, and I don’t end up using any of its code at the end of the day. I’ll occasionally have it write a little regex for me, which it does a decent job with, that’s its main use.
Copilot is garbage. I routinely run the same tasks, with same models as codex or Claude and copilot just cannot keep up. It’s really hard to convey to people how important the agent is right now. That is, don’t judge the llm hype by copilot its staggeringly bad.
Copilot is all I have to go by, due to the work restrictions. It took a good year to get that. I don’t know if anything else is in the works.
I’ve made a couple things outside of work with ChatGPT, but they were so basic that it was hardly something to get excited about. If it can’t help me at work, it’s hard for me to care much.
Re: Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Copilot is garbage. I routinely run the same tasks, with same models as codex or Claude and copilot just cannot keep up. It’s really hard to convey to people how important the agent is right now. That is, don’t judge the llm hype by copilot its staggeringly bad.
Copilot has agent mode now, but it just destroys everything it touches. I don’t if this is the same agent as codex or Claude (if I pick the associated model within Copilot). Copilot is all I have to go by, due to the work restrictions. It took a good year to get that. I don’t know if anything else is in the works. I’ve made a couple things outside of work with ChatGPT, but they were so basic that it was hardly someth…
The choices those processes make about tool calls, using subagents, etc make a huge difference in the quality of result you’ll get. Copilot is just an extremely bad agent compared to the sota agents.
Several of the open source agents will out perform copilot regularly (try aider, open code or cline if you can). It’s really just a baffling own goal by Microsoft on how they’ve managed this.
Re: Ask HN: Senior software engineers, how do you use Claude Code?
#14I can only use approved AI tools with company code, which is only Copilot. I try to use it from time to time, but am continually disappointed. I can’t relate to any of the hype. When I end up using it, I think it slows me down, and I don’t end up using any of its code at the end of the day. I’ll occasionally have it write a little regex for me, which it does a decent job with, that’s its main use.
Copilot is garbage. I routinely run the same tasks, with same models as codex or Claude and copilot just cannot keep up. It’s really hard to convey to people how important the agent is right now. That is, don’t judge the llm hype by copilot its staggeringly bad.
A big part of the right agent is tool use. Even OpenAI Codex is poor.
You should be able to just screenshot a Jira ticket and paste it into a tool these days. It may not do the whole ticket, but it gets you half of the way, and at the very least puts you near the right file.