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Here's an unpopular opinion

GitHub Copilot is not the best AI coding tool for data engineers.

Neither is Claude Code. Neither is Cursor.

They are all the best. Just not for the same job.

Copilot autocompletes your dbt model in one tab and your Airflow DAG in the next. Ten hours saved per developer per week according to enterprise pilots. But ask it to trace how a column rename cascades through thirty downstream dependencies across three repos and it falls over.

This is where Claude Code steps in. Full filesystem access. SWE-bench scores above 80%. It does not autocomplete your line. It understands your entire project.

Different tools. Different races. Different winners.

I mapped the full landscape in this week's edition of datapro.news explained in this video 👇

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