Well thanks for confirming, you're getting "something" out of each, i.e. minimising mean error, because none of them is the ultimate tool. Copilot price is actually $19 per seat and running my own company, I pay a bit more than $19 bucks, you know for my employees, people like yourself. Why I am fixated on a single tool? Because each of those "tools" are wrappers around one of the major LLMs. I am surprised you don't know that. Copilot, Windsurf, CLine etc. are all just frontends for models by anthropic, google and chatgpt. So the output cannot be, by definition very different.

There is lots of value to be added in wrapping those tools. I am very well aware of what these things are. LLMs are not a fire-and-forget weapon, even though so many of you business types really really really want it to be. I mean jesus you sound almost as delusional as my bosses.

Business type? I am nothing near a business type, with two technical degrees and 20 years of hands-on experience. But I managed to build my own stable business over the years, in part due to being analytical and not rushing to conclusions, especially not over strangers on Internet ;) Where did you get the conclusion that I am delusional? It's actually the business types who think that these tools are magic, mind-blowing, etc. I am, like many other "technical types", pushing for the opposite view - yes to some extent useful, but no where near the magic they are being advertised as. Anyone who calls them "mindblowing", like some guys in my comment thread are either inexperienced/junior or removed from the complex parts of the work, perhaps focused on writing up React frontends or similar.