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Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

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600 points antirez | 1 comments | 20 Jul 25 11:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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apwell23 ◴[20 Jul 25 13:37 UTC] No.44625088[source]▶
> Coding activities should be performed mostly with: Claude Opus 4

I've been going down to sonnet for coding over opus. maybe i am just writing dumb code

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1. stpedgwdgfhgdd ◴[20 Jul 25 14:10 UTC] No.44625351[source]▶
That is also what Anthropic recommends. In edge cases use Opus.

Opus is also way more expensive. (Don’t forget to switch back to Sonnet in all terminals)