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Yes! Though I mainly use it for one-shotting full files, so I'm not copying over small diffs. I did try copilot at some point in vscode, but after a week or so
by tikotus 25d ago
Yes! Though I mainly use it for one-shotting full files, so I'm not copying over small diffs. I did try copilot at some point in vscode, but after a week or so I felt like it was slowing me down. Something I knew would be a simple and quick change was now slow since I didn't have enough ownership of the code to do it quickly myself, and prompting for the change took longer than changing it manually if I had had full ownership. So I went back to coding by hand things that aren't a one-shot file.
- redox99 25d agoThanks for the reply. I'd suggest you improve your workflow with better tooling like Codex or Claude code, and if you have some kind of weird constraint they'll easily follow an AGENTS.md with that.
- matkoniecz 25d agoI refuse to pay any money to these companies specifically AND so far I use it solely for things where copy-pasting is entirely fine. I used free trial of Claude Code and has not seemed to be superior for my usecases.
- redox99 25d agoJust use opencode/pi/etc with an open weight model?
- rglullis 25d agoDoes it bother you so much to see people out there who can go on without their lives being shaped by the Corporations?
- HDThoreaun 25d agoIt bothers me when people have terrible inefficient workflows for no good reason
- rglullis 25d agoWhat you think is "terribly Ineffcient" can be also considered "perfectly acceptable and resilient to systemic shocks". Hyperfixation on efficiency gains is a disease of modern society.
- HDThoreaun 24d agoCopy pasting ai code from the browser is not perfectly acceptable. The only reason to do it is because you haven’t tried agents. It shows a lack of imagination and a willingness to settle for inferiority.
- matkoniecz 24d agoI tried Claude in agent mode, as I wrote in grand^4 parent - specifically in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622329
- MrDOS 24d ago“Terrible inefficient workflows”, like having to prompt Claude to change one or two words in a file rather than just manually editing it, because it gets confused when the file changes out from under it and will later overwrite the changes?
- matkoniecz 24d agonot familiar with those, will look into how one is using these
- ezlo707 25d agoI too use WebUI version, I prefer friction. I have Claude code extension in VScode but I don't use it much except for making small one time projects.
- cebert 25d agoUsing ChatGPT.com for coding tasks has to be a joke in 2026, right? I assumed everyone is using Codex/Claude Code/OpenCode/Pi by now if you’re using these tools.
- tikotus 25d agoYeah! Seems like that's the assumption in this ongoing discussion, so I thought my point of view would be interesting. I'm not saying I'm doing it the right way, possibly I'm being very stupid, but the point here is that it's not just the "normies" who don't know what Sol is.
- zdragnar 25d agoAt my admittedly very tiny workplace, I'm the only one who uses agents at all. The rest just use the web interface, though one tried cursor for a bit.
- plaguuuuuu 25d agocan i have a job there so i can work for like 2 hours a day
- derektank 25d agoLots of large enterprises and organizations have security policies that make it very hard to self-install these tools and haven’t figured out they should add them to their approved software list yet. Federal government in particular is still very slow
- satvikpendem 25d agoJust download the ChatGPT app and use the Codex mode.
- varnaud 25d agoThat's what I used to do (copy and paste from web ui and with copilot in my code editor). I started using claude code a couple of months ago and now almost exclusively use it. My workflow is mostly creating a md file describing what I want then telling claude code to look at it and implement it. I simply use the default model 95% of the time.