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0 pointsal_borland2mo ago0 comments

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 something to get excited about. If it can’t help me at work, it’s hard for me to care much.

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kasey_junk2mo ago

It is not the same. The agents (Claude code, codex) are the actual processes you’d interact with instead of copilot.

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.

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