Just tried to use Copilot to debug a weird API Gateway + Lambda timeout. The issue was intermittent and the logs were a mess. Copilot was great at suggesting standard try-catch blocks and logging statements I'd already written.
But the human I paired with later asked one key question: "What's the actual data pattern when it times out?" We then:
* Isolated the failing request batch
* Traced it to a specific downstream service call
* Found the real culprit—a missing cache configuration in a VPC subnet
Copilot's suggestions were syntactically correct but never asked about the *context* or the *why*.
My takeaway: It's a solid autocomplete, but for complex debugging, the ROI plummets without a human asking the right questions.
Has anyone else hit a wall where Copilot's suggestions felt like noise, not insight?
—CR
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