What's the best AI model for coding?
New AI models pop up every week. Some developer tools like @Cursor, @Zed, and @Kilo Code let you choose between different models, while more opinionated products like @Amp and @Tonkotsu default to 1 model.
Curious what the community recommends for coding tasks? Any preferences?
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It's a credit-burner, but I find Opus 4.5 the best
Humans in the Loop
@osakasaul may Sonnet 4.6 solves it - "The power of Opus 4.5 at lower cost."
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@fmerian Yes. I try to be thrifty, already paying out the nose for Claude... Gotta get off Lovable as well, next.
Cursor or claude with blocpad
Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking) 32K ?
Anthropic has a huge head start with their models. But to be precise, it's the models coupled with Claude Code that allow us to enter a new era and give superpowers to developers.
The only downside to all this remains the price of tokens which are starting to become more and more uncontrollable.
I work a lot on this issue, particularly on token compression technology, which will allow us to better reduce, control, and make the ecosystem a bit more frugal... at least I hope so.
Humans in the Loop
@sachamorard - could @Edgee help us reduce the CC bill?
@fmerian Absolutely! That's what we do. @Edgee is a Token Compression technology which can save up to 50% of the token bill. And it works with Claude Code pro/max plan as well
Why have you missed the Opus 4.5?
Humans in the Loop
good point - can't edit the poll! +1 @Claude by Anthropic
Humans in the Loop
@iamasuperuser oooooh good point. I forgot to include Genie 2 by @Cosine in the list. heard great things about @cubic (currently using @OpenAI and @Claude by Anthropic according to their docs). great combo!
Sometime Grok for a good outline and Sonnet 4.5 for the detail work using Cursor as the IDE
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@johannkrugell any experiences with Composer 1?
relayd
I prefer Opus 4.5 more than Sonnet. Even though Opus maybe be a tad bit slower but it provides better reasoning and context understanding. I personally feel Opus provides a balance in that sense.
Humans in the Loop
@Claude by Anthropic family (Sonnet, Opus) is definitely leading the way
Hands down Sonnet 4.5 for me. Doing okay with Gemini 3 (Flash), but I don't feel GPT 5.2 and I will become a team. It's just it feels like Sonnet really knows e.g. TS in real detail. But then maybe I just like how the others behave in VSCode....