In a 1200-run benchmark across 14 Terraform 1.10 resource types, Claude 3.5 Sonnet generated valid, production-ready HCL 22% faster than GitHub Copilot 2.0, but Copilot’s IDE integration reduced context-switching by 37% for senior DevOps engineers.

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet achieved 94.2% first-pass HCL validity across 1200 Terraform 1.10 module generations, vs Copilot 2.0’s 81.7% in identical test conditions.

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