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Maybe it depends on the work people are doing. I am doing a lot of data engineering where I can be often tabbing through while adjusting bits that are off, or doing Python portion by portion, and depending on the complexity it does go from "finish this string I'm writing" to few lines worth of code.

I'm often surprised that how quickly the model discovers reasonable patterns (even across files as well, that's often necessary to be correct).

With the diffs I find that by the time I describe things in a way it has a chance of working, I might have just written the whole thing myself. Especially as the diffs are often need correctly. With tabs that correction is part of a fast feedback look, with diffs it's so far a slower loop and just more awkward.

Of course, with changes to workflows one or the other can shine and if there's an interface that's faster than typing the instructions out that might just supercharge things for the diff/chat type too.