May 2026
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Santiago argues that Claude Code and Codex do not replace Copilot and Cursor, pushing back against a narrative he's heard from the vibe-coding community. He draws a distinction between these tools, noting that Claude Code and Codex are agentic coding tools suited for different use cases than the inline coding assistants like Copilot and Cursor. The post appears to be the beginning of a longer thread elaborating on why these tool categories serve fundamentally different purposes in a developer's workflow.