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Ask HN: How do you use Copilot in the CLI, App, and IDE?

A Hacker News user asks how developers use GitHub Copilot across its CLI, App, and IDE versions, noting that each product lacks features available in the others—for example, the CLI's /review command is missing from the App, and the IDE version lacks several features of the other two. The user seeks advice from those who claim they haven't written code in months.

read1 min views3 publishedJul 28, 2026

| |||||||||||| 2 points by | I'd like to have a uniform experience with Copilot regardless of the product – Copilot CLI, Copilot App, and Copilot in the IDE – but that isn't possible today. For example, the handy /review command of the CLI isn't available in the App. The App is nice and conversational, but can't navigate through code like Copilot in the IDE can. Copilot in the IDE is effective, but lacks several features of the other two. How are you working with Copilot? Which products do you use? Especially those folks who claim that they haven't been writing code in months. | ||||||||||| Applications are open till July 27. |

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