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Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

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600 points antirez | 3 comments | 20 Jul 25 11:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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vl ◴[21 Jul 25 02:39 UTC] No.44631313[source]▶
I use Claude Code with Opus, and article recommends Gemini 2.5 Pro. I want to try it as well, but I don't know a tool which would make experience compatible to Claude Code. Would it make sense to use with Cursor? Do they try to limit context?
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1. ramraj07 ◴[21 Jul 25 02:43 UTC] No.44631327[source]▶
My experience, which seems fairly isolated, is that using Gemini's web chat interface and pasting entire sections of my codebase beats any other agent I've seen. Some come close, and some are good with very large files etc, but if you have a decently organized codebase then using gemini like this beats anything else.
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2. vl ◴[21 Jul 25 03:31 UTC] No.44631534[source]▶
I work on established project with medium-size codebase, copying to chat and back is just not practical.

This is why Claude Code rocks - it quite often finds relevant parts itself.

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3. ramraj07 ◴[21 Jul 25 08:07 UTC] No.44632824[source]▶
I use tools like 16x prompt to copy just the relevant files. Sure, the tools like Claude Code finds the relevant files, but what happens after they find files is still suboptimal to what I get if I paste them into gemini myself.