What's the best AI model for coding?
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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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Phia
I use Antigravity from google, and mainly use Sonnet and Opus. Its weird but on the same prompt and context, sometimes, Gemini models hallucinates and start rewriting the whole files
Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking) 32K ?
Edgee
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.
@sachamorard - could @Edgee help us reduce the CC bill?
Edgee
@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?
good point - can't edit the poll! +1 @Claude by Anthropic
@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
@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.
@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....
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Where is Opus?
+1 @Claude by Anthropic