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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. cyral ◴[20 Jul 25 18:01 UTC] No.44627636[source]▶
Opus is too expensive and I find it goes way off the rails often (just writing way way too much. Maybe that could be controlled with a better prompt on my end). Sonnet gives me more realistic code that isn't too overengineered.