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They're misleading to consumers in general. I used copilot to write one suite of unit tests for a react form last week and it took ~7 hours of iterations to get functioning tests. Compared to writing them by hand in 4.5 it feels like vibe coding is pure hype.

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Nobody is basing their AI predictions on Copilot though. That is the issue with all AI skeptics. Claude Code is absurdly good at editing a software project. Copilot like per month fixed cost tools have a lower ceiling since they are cost constrained.

It might also be that part of the job of a programmer is to translate English (or you preferred human language) to a finished product. I have watched management talk to programmers about what they want. I sometimes wonder how things actually get done.

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