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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: 0.208s | source
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DSingularity ◴[20 Jul 25 15:27 UTC] No.44626096[source]▶
Sorry if I missed it in the article — what’s your setup? Do you use a CLI tool like aider or are you using an IDE like cursor?
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antirez ◴[20 Jul 25 15:31 UTC] No.44626143[source]▶
Terminal with vim in one side, the official web interface of the model in the other side. The pbcopy utility to pass stuff in the clipboard. I believe models should be used in their native interface as when there are other layers sometimes the model served is not exactly the same, other times it misbehaves because of RAG and in general no exact control of the context window.
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1. lisa_coicadan ◴[25 Jul 25 10:10 UTC] No.44681522[source]▶
I’ve seen this exact workflow (PDF → extract data → update structured files) come up a lot, and it’s impressive that Claude handled it end-to-end like that. We’ve been building Retab.com to handle those kinds of tasks more reliably, especially when you want structured output (like JSON) from messy documents like PDFs, scans, or even images. Instead of writing ad-hoc scripts or chaining LLM calls, you just upload the file, define what you want (via schema), and it gives you clean structured data. It’s AI-native but deterministic, no need to install PyPDF2 or debug model behavior. Just wanted to share in case others are solving similar problems repeatedly.