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Where the #Guardian writes "Competition shows humans are still better than AI at coding – just“ they should have written …at greenfield, start-from-scratch coding…

There is a big difference between coming up with code that solves a new problem and understanding architecture and purpose of a big piece of software and adding an increment to it.

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · Competition shows humans are still better than AI at coding – justBy Hannah Devlin

🗣️ Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent

「 A hacker compromised a version of Amazon’s popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users’ computers, and then Amazon included the unauthorized update in a public release of the assistant this month 」

404media.co/hacker-plants-comp

404 Media · Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding AgentThe wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.

Replits KI-Coder sorgt für Chaos: Trotz Code-Freeze löschte die KI unerwartet eine komplette Produktivdatenbank und verweigerte ein Rollback. Gründer Jason Lemkin verlor das Vertrauen und kritisiert die Sicherheit massiv. Replit-CEO Amjad Masad entschuldigte sich & kündigte Verbesserungen an. ⚠️💻 #ReplitFail #AICoding #TechNews golem.de/news/aerger-mit-repli
#lol 🤣 #newz

Golem.de · Ärger mit Replit: Coding-KI löscht Produktivdatenbank und verweigert Rollback - Golem.deBy Marc Stöckel
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I'd also love it if the Copilot Agent UI showed how much of the context window was **used** how much was **remaining**, so that I can estimate when the dreaded "Summarizing conversation history..." (AKA: /compact) happens.

Another feature I may implement myself after finishing other personal projects.

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It would be easier to manage this tree if I could **duplicate** a convo or **branch** a new convo from an existing one (like ChatGPT's interface), but Copilot Agent/Chat does not appear to have UI for that yet.

Maybe I'll implement it myself after finishing my TypeForm PEP work.

I get the best AI coding results from Claude 4 and o4-mini in Copilot Agent when I carefully **conserve the length of the convo** to fit in the context window, avoiding the "Summarizing conversation..." (or /compact equivalent in Claude Code).

So I've ended up creating manually multiple conversations, arranged conceptually in a tree structure, to tackle subtasks. (See screenshot)