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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. northern-lights ◴[20 Jul 25 15:21 UTC] No.44626015[source]▶
In my experience as well, Sonnet 4 is much better than Opus. Opus is great at the start of a project, where you would need to plan things, structure the project, figure out how to execute but it cannot beat Sonnet is actually executing it. It is also a lot cheaper.