Yeah I got it last after reading the article. Was more commenting on the inadequacy of the summary. Then again, the summary was so confusing that it made me read the article...

As long as y'all keep sending cool posts about programming, I don't mind.

Agreed, this reads like a list of things I miss from rust when I'm writing go to me.

They're interchangeable for branches. Checkout works with arbitrary refs like commit hashes and tags as well. For these, switch needs the --detach flag. You can also use it to create a new branch from the current commit with ’git switch -c $branch_name’.

That's basically what their evil.py file is. So they're essential complaining that co-pilot forced them to have follow a good practice.