--- title: This level of fumble should be studied | daily.dev description: A sarcastic hot take mocking GitHub Copilot for squandering its first-mover advantage in AI coding assistants. Despite being the pioneer with unparalleled... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-level-of-fumble-should-be-studied-2wtwisnkj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This level of fumble should be studied | daily.dev og:description: A sarcastic hot take mocking GitHub Copilot for squandering its first-mover advantage in AI coding assistants. Despite being the pioneer with unparalleled... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-level-of-fumble-should-be-studied-2wtwisnkj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2wTwIsNkj.png og:image:alt: This level of fumble should be studied og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This level of fumble should be studied **[Swapnoneel Saha](https://daily.dev/sources/ldi7vqbpkryv936wnukjd)** · [@swapnoneel](https://daily.dev/swapnoneel) · 1 min read · 10 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary A sarcastic hot take mocking GitHub Copilot for squandering its first-mover advantage in AI coding assistants. Despite being the pioneer with unparalleled access to the world's code, Copilot has been outcompeted by every agentic AI coding tool that followed it. ## Content => be github. => invent copilot. => you are literally the first one. => you are literally the only one. => you literally have access to all the code in the world. => get mogged by literally every single agentic bs that came out in the past few years. ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ai1over** · 1 upvotes > should be studied **@mr\_guy** · 0 upvotes > I feel like they can still recover if they only put their minds to it (not that I'm in their corner) > > For example : Limit code pushes to ((n*x) + y) per repo > > n = number of users' in a repo > > x = humanely possible code pushes in 24hr window > > y = extra pushes for the sake of leniency or something > > At least this way *everyone wins --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/this-level-of-fumble-should-be-studied-2wtwisnkj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-level-of-fumble-should-be-studied-2wtwisnkj","headline":"This level of fumble should be studied","text":"A sarcastic hot take mocking GitHub Copilot for squandering its first-mover advantage in AI coding assistants. 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