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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bgwalter ◴[20 Jul 25 13:59 UTC] No.44625261[source]▶

Translation: His company will launch "AI" products in order to get funding or better compete with Valkey.

I find it very sad that people who have been really productive without "AI" now go out of their way to find small anecdotal evidence for "AI".

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brokencode ◴[20 Jul 25 14:18 UTC] No.44625432[source]▶

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I find it even more sad when people come out of the woodwork on every LLM post to tell us that our positive experiences using LLMs are imagined and we just haven’t realized how bad they are yet.

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cratermoon ◴[20 Jul 25 14:56 UTC] No.44625771[source]▶

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We don't just tell you they were imagined, we can provide receipts.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

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1. brokencode ◴[20 Jul 25 21:34 UTC] No.44629513[source]▶

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Certainly an interesting result, but remember that a single paper doesn’t prove anything. This will no doubt be something studied very extensively and change over time as tools develop.

Personally, I find the current tools don’t work great for large existing codebases and complex tasks. But I’ve found they can help me quickly make small scripts to save me time.

I know, it’s not the most glamorous application, but it’s what I find useful today. And I have confidence the tools will continue to improve. They hardly even existed a few years ago.

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