alt Hacker NewsCan we talk about how much copilot sucks in vscode? I have to use for work, buggy as hell for the premier product of a trillion dollar company.
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As long as we're on the subject, I'll take the opportunity here to vent about how embarrassingly buggy and unusable VS Code is in general. It throws me for a loop that pros voluntarily use it on the rare occasions I'm forced to use it instead of JetBrains.
I use Claude Code in Zed via ACP and have issues all the time. It pushes me towards using the CLI, but I don’t want to do things that way because it’s a vibe coding workflow. I want to be in the drivers seat, see what the agent has done and be able apply or reject hunks.
I’m in the same boat. I use it to save me from going to a browser to lookup simple syntax references, that’s about it. Its agent mode is terrifying, and asking it anything remotely complex has been a fool’s errand.
We can, but I'm really happy with it. Nobody forced it on me though.
Not my experience. What doesn't work for you?
I use Opus 4.6 (for complex refactoring), Gemini 3.1 Pro (for html/css/web stuff) and GPT Codex 5.3 (workhorse, replaced Sonnet for me because in Copilot it has larger context) mostly.
For small tools. But also for large projects.
Current projects are:
1) .NET C#, Angular, Oracle database. Around 300k LoC.
2) Full stack TypeScript with Hono on backend, React on frontend glued by trpc, kysely and PostgreSQL. Around 120k LoC.
Works well in both. I'm using plan mode and agent mode.
What helps a ton are e2e playright tests which are executed by the agent after each code change.
My only complain is that it tends to get stutters after many sessions/hours. A restart fixes it.
$39/mo plan.