The SOTA changes every couple weeks, but Claude’s been very dominant for a while, yeah. There’s currently a lot of hype around GPT-5.4, but even then there’s a caveat that Claude is still better at UI.
I just personally find Cursor to be pretty buggy. But I think the Replit mention is more of a tell that someone vibe codes but doesn’t actually code. It’s been advertised to people as a way to build end to end apps without any coding experience. And to be fair, they’ve done a good job of building on the past decade of work in the Typescript community to make an entire app end to end type safe and therefore checkable by the compiler. Convex has done something similar in a way that I prefer and in my experience LLMs are very good at working in Convex projects as well.
Really at the end of the day I was just being pithy. Kind of poking fun at how much of a moving target SOTA is.
I wrote an app for my wife and it was really sad watching her just fumble past bugs instead of pointing them out when I was literally watching over her shoulder to get feedback on what needed fixed. I had to tell her several times, “No, don’t just keep reloading. What’s wrong?” Like we’ve all been trained so hard to accept shitty software that even when I could fix stuff easily I know people are just passively accepting the bugs.