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Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

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600 points antirez | 5 comments | 20 Jul 25 11:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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fumeux_fume ◴[20 Jul 25 15:06 UTC] No.44625889[source]▶
I currently use LLMs as a glorified Stack Overflow. If I want to start integrating an LLM like Gemini 2.5 PRO into my IDE (I use Visual Studio Code), whats the best way to do this? I don't want to use a platform like Cursor or Claude Code which takes me away from my IDE.
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1. physicles ◴[20 Jul 25 15:19 UTC] No.44626003[source]▶
Cursor is an IDE. You can use its powerful (but occasionally wrong) autocomplete, and start asking it to do small coding tasks using the Ctrl+L side window.
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2. fumeux_fume ◴[20 Jul 25 15:26 UTC] No.44626081[source]▶
I don't want to leave my IDE
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3. Philpax ◴[20 Jul 25 16:33 UTC] No.44626788[source]▶
Worth noting that Cursor is a VS Code fork and you can copy all of your settings over to it. Not saying that you have to, of course, but that it's perhaps not as different as you might be imagining.
4. anthomtb ◴[20 Jul 25 17:24 UTC] No.44627288[source]▶
Does running a Claude Code command in VSCode's integrated terminal count as leaving your IDE?

(We may have differing definitions of "leaving" ones IDE).

5. cyral ◴[20 Jul 25 17:59 UTC] No.44627613[source]▶
I don't either but unfortunately Cursor is better than all the other plugins for IDEs like JetBrains. I just tab over to cursor and prompt it, then edit the code in my IDE of choice.