Re:Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe
by gommm on Monday September 01, 2025 @10:16AM
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I end up using Perplexity a lot too, especially when I'm doing something unfamiliar. It's also a good way to quickly find out what are best practices for a given framework/language I'm not that familiar with (I usually ask it to link to examples in the wild and it find opensource projects illustrating those points)
Re:Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe
by stavros on Monday September 01, 2025 @10:02AM
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I have both, and Perplexity is much more like a search engine than a chat companion (or at least that's how I use it). I like both, though.
Re:Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe
by Rochus on Monday September 01, 2025 @03:04PM
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You can select the model. I very much appreciate the Claude Sonnet models which are very good and rational discussion partners, responding to arguments in detail and critically, allowing for the dialectical exploration of complex topics. I have also experimented with other models including ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok, but the resulting discussions were only a fraction as useful (i.e. more optimized towards affirmative feel-good small talk, from my humble point of view).
I have a Perplexity subscription which I heavily use for such purpose, just asking how something works or should be used, with a response just on the point and with examples. Very useful indeed. Perplexity gives me access to Claude Sonnet 4 w/o Thinking which I consider great models, and it can also generate decent code. My intention was to find out how good the recent Claude Opus is in comparison and how much of my work I'm able to delegate. Personally I much prefer the user interface features, performance and availability of Perplexity to Claude.ai.