https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2409.19922/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933521urn:hackerpapers:mention:2409.19922:46933521Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:00:49 GMT<p>&gt; Copilot is notoriously bad. &quot;notoriously bad&quot; is news to me. I find no indication from online sources that would warrant the label &quot;notoriously bad&quot;. https://arxiv.org/html/2409.19922v1#S6 from 2024 concludes it has the highest success rate in easy and medium coding problems (with no clear winner for hard) and that it produces &quot;slightly better runtime performance overall&quot;. https://research.aimultiple.com/ai-coding-benchmark/ from 2025 has Copilot in a three-way tie for third above Gemini. &gt; Have you tried (paid plans) codex, Claude or even Gemini on your legacy project? This is usually the…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2409.19922/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.SE