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What tools are people now using for LLM coding? Claude code?
More importantly, what tools are people now using for expert level code that isn't trivial Javascript / Python boilerplate or doesn't interface to trivial apis using such languages?
Windsurf for one-off stuff where simple iteration will do the trick ("write tests for this code, iterate until tests pass, usual caveats"), the llm cli command for very simple repetitive stuff that doesn't require much context (e.g. simple semantic stuff like "check for out-of-date comments", or stuff where I could figure out eventually how to do it with tree-sitter but it's not worth the time like "replace this function call with that one, here's how to structure it").
For writing core business logic where I'm the domain expert, vim to write the code followed by windsurf for automated code review ("here's the patch, here's the codebase, review the patch for [long list of things] and anything else that stands out to you").
My heuristic is to never use the LLM to do something I don't know how to do myself. Since most of my job involves doing things I do know how to do myself, this does not actually block off very much.
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