Copilot is a bad yardstick. The article literally addresses exactly this. It’s not just “cool technology”, that’s the point. It enables things that were previously impossible.
I spent $600 on claude via cursor last month and it was easily worth 2-3x that.
Since the "state of the art" seems to change every week, what's a good way to try out the current "state of the art", without spending $600? I'd love to give it a shot and be proven wrong, but I'm not going to spend 1/2 a mortgage payment on a trial.
EDIT: Looks like the "Cursor" thing has a free trial. Might start there.
I spent $600 because I did something like 5200 uses.
You can start off for much less. I recommend trying claude-4-opus max/thinking. There might be cheaper options but that’s the one that has given me the best results so far.
I spent $600 on claude via cursor last month and it was easily worth 2-3x that.