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I tried pair programming for a month with three different AI tools.
The first tool was called AlphaCode, and it had a unique feature that let you write code in a more natural language. I spent 45 minutes on it, hoping to make it work seamlessly. it was frustrating. The second tool I used was CodeGeeX, which I found more polished but still struggled to understand the nuances. CodeGeeX took me an hour. The third and final tool was Claude, which surprised me. I spent only 20 minutes trying it out. Claude seemed to grasp the task more intuitively. Now I'm wondering, how do AI tools learn to pair program in a human-like way?
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2026-11-02 16:42:40 UTCEvent JSON
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