Problemsby IbisGitHub Copilot feels slow and laggy
Dev tooling7 posts from 7 people4d active+55 posts in the last 7 days, 2 the 7 days before (rising)
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7, newest firstCopilot chat responses are very slowType: Bug In today's release from October 15th, chat responses are extremely slow... The last stable version where Chat Copilot works properly is 1.127.0 (following today's update). I tested it on 3 different computers... VS Code version: Code 1.142.0...microsoft/vscode · Srdjan-K7 reactions, 3 repliesOpen ↗Copilot is taking Way long time to answerType: Performance Issue Chat with copilot agent mode, auto model, balance is taking 4min to do a simple answer VS Code version: Code 1.142.0 (Universal) (6d62b1d5dace93a33b3a6d3eca1317bd5e15bcb1, 2026-10-15T03:02:17Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 25.6.0 Modes: System Info...microsoft/vscode · guadalazzo2 reactions, 3 repliesOpen ↗Copilot is slow and doing a terrible job today...happen today to Copilot today?. Today it seems the auto model selection is doing a terrible job.. Also i have sneaky suspicion that the model is being switched mid task.. Usually i am using GPT or Claude and I have can tell the pattern of thinking.. Today, it is more opaque and...r/GithubCopilot · u/juzanartistOpen ↗copilot is running very slowcopilot is running too much slow from 14th octmicrosoft/vscode · abhijit-chikane11 reactions, 7 repliesOpen ↗Super slow reasoning from latest update?Hi, anyone else having super laggy reasoning (eg thinking and considering)? My copilot chat is stuck for minutes and minutes, especially repeated 'This is taking a little longer than usual'. It happened only when the logo popped up.. #tldr: Solution found: Disable mcp kraken....r/GithubCopilot · u/Fabulous_Clock4791Open ↗Custom Workflow with local/non local models...all in one go during the night. I want to do this using GitHub Copilot Desktop app. How do I set it up so that it auto does the review with a model I choose and then goes back to the primary model for the coding again..r/GithubCopilot · u/Revolutionary_Loan13Open ↗I think your experience has been unusual. My experience with windows has been buggy patches that occasionally break my computer, bizarre and hard to track down performance issues, and features that I immediately want to not only disable but completely remove (anything copilot...Hacker News comments · overgardOpen ↗
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7 posts from 7 people in 3 places, about 7 a week over 7 days. Mostly on r/GithubCopilot, microsoft/vscode, Hacker News comments. Tools named alongside: VS Code, Claude, MySQL, MariaDB.
Frustration Frustration 2 of 3· Seen on Reddit, GitHub issues, Hacker News
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Posts that state a pain and match the "slow-tool" rule about GitHub Copilot. First post Oct 10, 2026, latest Oct 16, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method
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GitHub Copilot feels slow and laggy (4 posts)