Re:Vibe Coding Kills Open Source
by alright2565 on Monday January 26, 2026 @09:04AM
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I personally don't have any trouble with that. Using Sonnet 3.7 in Claude Code, I just ask it to spelunk the git history for a certain segment of the code if I think it will be meaningful for its task.
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Re:Vibe Coding Kills Open Source
by gibspaulding on Monday January 26, 2026 @09:16AM
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Out of curiosity, why 3.7 Sonnet? I see lots of people saying to always use the latest and greatest 4.5 Opus. Do you find that it’s good enough that the increased token cost of larger/more recent models aren’t worth it? Or is there more to it?
Re:Vibe Coding Kills Open Source
by alright2565 on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:13AM
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I misremembered :(
4.5 Sonnet, but because I've been stuck on 3.7 Sonnet for so long due to corporate policy I wrote the wrong thing.
And yeah corporate policy. Opus is not available. I prefer Codex for my personal coding but I have not needed to look in the Git history here yet.
Opus is pretty overkill sometimes. I use Sonnet by default. Haiku if I have clearer picture of what I'm trying to solve. Opus only when I notice any of the models struggle. All 4.5 though. Not sure why 3.7. Curious about that too.
I suspect they use the LLM for help with text editing, rather than give it standalone tasks. For that purpose a model with 'thinking' would just get in the way.