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"If an LLM wrote every line of your code, but you've reviewed, tested, and understood it all, that's not vibe coding in my book - that's using an LLM as a typing assistant," Willison said.

Alibaba said the model sets new performance benchmarks among open models for agentic coding, browser use, and tool use, and performs on par with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.