I haven’t used it professionally, but I still know they provide huge help. It’s no secret. But my statement was simply following the logic of the previous commenter, who was saying that Proton are trying to weed out the people who aren’t able to QC out the slop. But if you are in need of QC to remove the slop, you are probably overdosing on agentic coding to begin with.

Anyway, “only an idiot asks for anything better than a starting point”, sure, definitely agree. But what percentage of being a professional developer at a company involves prototyping something new, and doing “starting points”? Most development is just tacking on new shit to old shit. Clamping shit together with other shit. I guess that’s the issue?, which causes people to still use AI because they are pretty much forced to, sometimes literally, and so actually do ask for more than just a starting point. And then here we are…