> I've been friends with Jack over 15 years now so I'm inclined to take him at his word

That's all I needed to hear to completely disregard your motivated reasoning.

Edit: I've hit the rate limit, but I'd like to disavow the bad-faith accusations made against me and my account in the replies to this comment.

Second edit: I am not trolling. Why should I take your opinion on LLM code generation seriously when you have been friends with the founder of Anthropic for well over a decade? Obviously you are not in a position to make a rational evaluation of this technology.