It still fubars my code regularly at 11x the price. Github Copilot Agentic Mode + Sonnet 4.6 is stable and inexpensive.

It's a personal project, but inspired by OpenClaw (which I find way overhyped), I am building an ambient intelligence layer for investment finance including a 3-tiered memory architecture, sensors (for environment scanning), skills, reasoning agents, and a new agentic UI concept only for that purpose.

I wrote about it here: https://jdsemrau.substack.com/p/pair-programming-superbill-w...

Most "hackers" now are build to sell (i.e., micro-entrepreneurship), not build for intellectual curiosity.

Where did Fry's Electronics go? Where can I go an buy robot parts or even used tech parts?

Let's say I want to build a drone from scratch.

I reached the same conclusion. I tried using both for my personal investment ambient using agent-pair programming to build and agentic intelligence layer for stocks and the difference between the 2 models if astounding.