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Comment · 5 months ago
I'm not sure how you can believe that GitHub Copilot in VS Code is just a CLI interface when the former existed long before the CLI. It's not. For a certain amount of time, the two teams weren't even working together. The CLI was adding things customers were wondering when would it reach VS Code. So, it's not just a CLI harness. They added the ability to call the CLI from VS Code but GitHub Copilot in VS Code existed before the CLI and is remains a separate thing that's just interfacing with the CLI now.
All I can say is I know because I know. There's been some "synergizing" among the corporation about the CLI team running off to do their own thing and adding features to the CLI that amount to trying to force a Terminal to act like a GUI.
Comment · 6 months ago
It instantly made me think this was either written by AI or heavily edited, and I hadn't gotten that sense until the moment I saw load-bearing.
I hate that em dashes have been killed by AI as well. Hundreds of years ago Charles Dickens was using them in his novels and today someone will read his books and in ignorance actually think AI wrote it.
Comment · 7 months ago
The Databricks thing was a ploy. They then pushed Azure Synapse Analytics and forced all internal teams to stop using Azure Databricks. Synapse was half baked and then they are now pushing Microsoft Fabric which is even less baked.
Comment · 7 months ago
For GitHub to remain profitable they have to appease those shareholders you mentioned.
Comment · 8 months ago
It's hilarious to me how we are recreating decades of IDE advancements such that they work on the terminal, only for us to end up with what is essentially an IDE.
Comment · 8 months ago
Unrelated but your comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736176 related to the Terminal agents coding craze have helped me feel less crazy. People using GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code, they either never review the code or end up opening up an IDE to review the code, and I'm sitting here like, why don't you use the terminal in your favorite IDE? You're using a Terminal as a chat interface, so why not just use a chat interface? Or use the terminal in VS Code which actually now integrates very well with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI so you can see what's going on across the many files this thing is editing?
The hype is so large with the CLI coding tools I got FOMO, but as you were saying in that thread, I see no tangible improvement to the value I get out of AI coding tools by using the CLI alone. I use the CLI in VS Code, and I use the chat panel, and the only thing that seems to actually make a difference is the "context engineering" stuff of custom instructions, agent skills, prompt files, hooks, custom agents, all that stuff, which works no matter which interface you use to kick off your AI coding instructions.
Would be curious to hear your thoughts on the topic all these months later.
Comment · 8 months ago
And if software engineering has been solved by AI, why is Anthropic still hiring and employing SWE's?
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-code-founde...
Comment · 2 years ago
I love this. The cognitive of understanding what this code does is super low, it solves the problem, presents no glaring performance issues, and isn’t trying to be cute.
Comment · 2 years ago
I am writing this from a coffee shop where myself and others have gone well over 4 hours working. The business owners don’t care so long as you make purchases and don’t sit at a 10 person table for just yourself.
I see people get a morning coffee, get lunch and a drink, and then maybe something on their way out. It’s not a problem.
Comment · 2 years ago
I disagree with the silence bit. I am a frequent remote worker at coffee shops across the USA and people working have noise canceling headphones usually, I have never seen anyone demand silence in a coffee shop. Libraries are a different story.
Comment · 2 years ago
That plus Microsoft PoweToys (which inexplicably isn’t installed by default) are the only things that make Windows useable to me.
Comment · 2 years ago
I am personally refreshed reading through the comments here and seeing a nuanced, rational response to the ad rather than the manufactured outrage you mentioned.
Reading through those comments, one stood out to me.
> AFAIK the idea was that SQL is so close to plain English that any accountant could simply use it to generate reports or enter data. It's really an old fallacy that using plain language would make complexity go away. > > beew001
Was responding to a thread about how SQL was meant to be "low code" if not "no code", and even COBOL before it.
Now in 2026 with LLMs I'm finding a lot of what's said in that comment section is still true. Would love if some commenters from that original thread popped back in here.