Post B2ABmpqUonSmNwpbsm by mitch@podcastindex.social
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(DIR) Post #B2ABmmzFRngJWDu3bk by mitch@podcastindex.social
2026-01-10T04:36:51Z
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I don't know if there is anyone left who is skeptical...but the LLM updates over the past couple months for programming are a giant leap forward, and it seems like we've crossed an inflection point for the industry.Using Opus 4.5, I was able to get what would have been 5 days of work for me finished in 1 day.One stage of my work included writing 8 paragraphs of instructions for Opus, and it wrote hundreds of lines of code across 7 repos, and was ~99% accurate and finished after a few minutes
(DIR) Post #B2ABmo9v5boP9bu5se by mitch@podcastindex.social
2026-01-10T04:41:10Z
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The cost of using Opus 4.5 is substantial. A long 12 hour day of work cost me almost $50 in Anthropic API credits.Since we haven't turned a profit yet with Podverse, that comes out of my pocket and is not easy to sustain, but the time and energy savings make it worth it.I'm currently trying to replace Opus 4.5 in my setup with GLM 4.7, which is the highest rated open source / MIT LLM for coding available today. API credits are 10% the cost of Anthropic's, so hopefully it will be good enough.
(DIR) Post #B2ABmoswODpBPEy33Q by alecksgates@podcastindex.social
2026-01-10T16:59:40Z
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@mitch I'm using Gemini CLI. It's been great. Gemini 3 especially.
(DIR) Post #B2ABmpqUonSmNwpbsm by mitch@podcastindex.social
2026-01-10T23:53:22Z
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@alecksgates do you use a full CLI approach? I haven’t made that leap yet, and with how I’m using LLMs at least, it doesn’t seem like they’ve eliminated the need for manual edits in all cases.
(DIR) Post #B2ABmqNoou7O3IQDp2 by alecksgates@podcastindex.social
2026-01-11T02:05:05Z
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@mitch it sort of depends on how much experimentation I need to do, but even if I'm using the CLI, I'll usually open a CLI editor to the side.Nothing beats an IDE for exploring code though and I still perform reviews.Very similar to just having a junior dev to check in on tbh. Just a lot cheaper.I opted for the Google AI Ultra subscription because I kept hitting the daily limit on the pro plan. And they have a promotion for $150/3 months... not sure if I'll keep it yet.
(DIR) Post #B2ABmqt0wv4Vc318Rk by dave@podcastindex.social
2026-01-11T03:56:15Z
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@alecksgates @mitch Jetbrains Junie is serving my needs atm. I haven't used it on a large existing codebase yet, but for new projects I'm using it a ton. I need to keep trying the CLI stuff to get used to it. I'll probably be using it soon to help create some docker images for the aggregators.
(DIR) Post #B2AC5T4bi421GBJgjQ by alecksgates@podcastindex.social
2026-01-11T03:59:45Z
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@dave @mitch I was sticking with Junie in the beginning, but I ended not using all the credits i bought ahead of time because I was busy with work. So I ended up cancelling.And I already had a Google AI Pro subscription from a promotion from my Pixel 10 Pro purchase, so I figured why not try it.It turns out, it's really helpful for non-code projects too like capnproto config or system configuration. And I find it easier to manage across multiple terminal sessions + it crashes less.
(DIR) Post #B2E4cjoWT2yJjdzD0a by csb@podcastindex.social
2026-01-13T00:54:58Z
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@dave You use Jetbrains? Thanks for using Slavic software (made by my Slavic bros).
(DIR) Post #B2FJ3svKIaHAK7y2We by dave@podcastindex.social
2026-01-13T15:11:27Z
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@csb Yes!