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Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

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600 points antirez | 2 comments | 20 Jul 25 11:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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hedgehog ◴[20 Jul 25 15:13 UTC] No.44625936[source]▶
GitHub Copilot is pretty easy to try within VS Code
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fumeux_fume ◴[20 Jul 25 15:27 UTC] No.44626094[source]▶
I want to use Gemini 2.5 PRO. I was an early tester of Copilot and it was awful.
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kgwgk ◴[20 Jul 25 15:30 UTC] No.44626124{3}[source]▶
https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/ai-models/suppo...
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1. fumeux_fume ◴[20 Jul 25 15:36 UTC] No.44626200{4}[source]▶
Thank you! When I was testing out Copilot I was stuck with whatever default LLM was being used. Didn't realize you could switch it out for a non-MS/OpenAI model.
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2. hedgehog ◴[20 Jul 25 18:13 UTC] No.44627748[source]▶
In my testing Sonnet 4 is far better than any of the Google or OpenAI models.