dimitri-vs (u/dimitri-vs)

dimitri-vs commented on Graphite is joining Cursor cursor.com/blog/graphite... · Posted by u/fosterfriends

> Yeah, hard disagree on that one, based on recent surveys, 80-90% of developers globally use IDEs over CLIs for their day-to-day work.

I have absolutely no horse in this race, but I turned from a 100% Cursor user at the beginning of the year, to one that basically uses agents for 90% of my work, and VS Code for the rest of it. The value proposition that Cursor gave me was not able to compete with what the basic Max subscription on anthropic gave me, and VS Code is still a superior experience to Claude in the IDE space.

I think though that Cursor has all the potential to beat Microsoft at the IDE game if they focus on it. But I would say it's by no way a given that this is the default outcome.

dimitri-vs · 7 hours ago

This is me. Was a huge Cursor fan, tried Claude Code, didn't get it, tried it again a year ago and it finally clicked a week later I cancelled my Cursor sub and now using VS Code.

I don't even like using CLI, in fact I hate it, but I don't use CLI - Claude does it for me. Using for everything: Obsidian vault, working on Home Assistant, editing GSheets, and so much more.

dimitri-vs commented on Mistral OCR 3 mistral.ai/news/mistral-o... · Posted by u/pember

numlocked · 9 hours ago

(I work at OpenRouter) If you send a PDF to our API we will:

1. Use native PDF parsing if the model supports it

2. Use this Mistral OCR model (we updated to this version yesterday)

3. UNLESS you override the "engine" param to use an alternate. We support a JS-based (non-LLM) parser as well [0]

So yes, in practice a lot of OCR jobs go to Mistral, but not all of them.

Would love to hear requests for other parsers if folks have them!

[0] https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/multimodal/pdfs#p...

dimitri-vs · 8 hours ago

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dimitri-vs commented on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

gaigalas · 3 days ago

If Opus is one-size-fits-all, then why Claude keeps the other series? (rethorical).

Opus and Sonnet are slower than Haiku. For lots of less sophisticated tasks, you benefit from the speed.

All vendors do this. You need smaller models that you can rapid-fire for lots of other reasons than vibe coding.

Personally, I actually use more smaller models than the sophisticated ones. Lots of small automations.

dimitri-vs · 2 days ago

Yes, all the major CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, etc) and many agentic applications use a large model main agent with task delegation to small model sub-agent. For example in CC using Opus4.5 it will delegate an Explore task to a Haiku/Sonnet subagent or multiple subagents.

dimitri-vs commented on The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps? codemanship.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt

jackfranklyn · 6 days ago

davydm nails it. The gap isn't in generating code - it's in everything else that makes software actually work.

I've been building accounting tools for years. AI can generate a function to parse a bank statement CSV pretty well. But can it handle the Barclays CSV that has a random blank row on line 47? Or the HSBC format that changed last month? Or the edge case where someone exports from their mobile app vs desktop?

That's not even touching the hard stuff - OAuth token refresh failures at 3am, database migrations when you change your mind about a schema, figuring out why Xero's API returns different JSON on Tuesdays.

The real paradox: AI makes starting easier but finishing harder. You get to 80% fast, then spend longer on the last 20% than you would have building from scratch - because now you're debugging code you don't fully understand.

dimitri-vs · 6 days ago

As someone that's currently building accounting (and many many other) tools for myself: yes, it can.

But with a big fat asterisk that you: 1. Need to make it aware of all relevant business logic 2. Give it all necessary tools to iterate and debug and 3. Have significant experience with strengths and weaknesses of coding agents.

To be clear I'm talking about cli agents like Claude Code which IMO is apples and oranges vs ChatGPT (and even Cursor).

dimitri-vs commented on The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude blog.chrislewis.au/the-un... · Posted by u/knackers

zdware · 14 days ago

Agree with this. I'm a software engineer that has mostly not had to manage memory for most of my career.

I asked Opus how hard it would be to port the script extender for Baldurs Gate 3 from Windows to the native Linux Build. It outlined that it would be very difficult for someone without reverse engineering experience, and correctly pointed out they are using different compilers, so it's not a simple mapping exercise. It's recommendation was not to try unless I was a Ghrida master and had lots of time in my hands.

dimitri-vs · 14 days ago

FWIW most LLMs are pretty terrible at estimating complexity. If you've used Claude Code for any length of time you might be familiar with it's plan "timelines" which always span many days but for medium size projects get implemented in about an hour.

I've had CC build semi-complex Tauri, PyQT6, Rust and SvelteKit apps for me without me having ever touched that language. Is the code quality good? Probably not. But all those apps were local-only tools or had less than 10 users so it doesn't matter.

dimitri-vs commented on Writing a good Claude.md humanlayer.dev/blog/writi... · Posted by u/objcts

vunderba · 19 days ago

From the article:

> We recommend keeping task-specific instructions in separate markdown files with self-descriptive names somewhere in your project. Then, in your CLAUDE.md file, you can include a list of these files with a brief description of each, and instruct Claude to decide which (if any) are relevant and to read them before it starts working.

I've been doing this since the early days of agentic coding though I've always personally referred to it as the Table-of-Contents approach to keep the context window relatively streamlined. Here's a snippet of my CLAUDE.md file that demonstrates this approach:

  # Documentation References

  - When adding CSS, refer to: docs/ADDING_CSS.md
  - When adding assets, refer to: docs/ADDING_ASSETS.md
  - When working with user data, refer to: docs/STORAGE_MANAGER.md

Full CLAUDE.md file for reference:

https://gist.github.com/scpedicini/179626cfb022452bb39eff10b...

dimitri-vs · 19 days ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the new "skillss are exactly this, but better.

dimitri-vs commented on Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding github.com/addyosmani/gem... · Posted by u/ayoisaiah

agentdrek · 23 days ago

YMMV I guess but it's my goto tool; fast and reliable results at least for my use cases

dimitri-vs · 23 days ago

Agreed. Been using Claude Code daily for the past year and Codex as a fall back when Claude gets stuck. Codex has two problems: it Windows support sucks and it's way to "mission driven" vs the collaborative Claude. Gemini CLI falls somewhere in the middle, has some seriously cool features (Ctrl+X to edit prompt in notepad) and it's web research capability is actually good.

dimitri-vs commented on ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/artic... · Posted by u/randycupertino

sarchertech · a month ago

And it’s not just lab tests and bloodwork. Physicians use all their senses. They poke, they prod, they manipulate, they look, listen, and smell.

They’re also good at extracting information in a way that (at least currently) sycophantic LLMs don’t replicate.

dimitri-vs · a month ago

Agreed, but I'm sure you can see why people prefer the infinite patience and availability of ChatGPT vs having to wait weeks to see your doctor, see them for 15 minutes only to be referred to another specialist that's available weeks away and has an arduous hour long intake process all so you can get 15 minutes of their time.

dimitri-vs commented on A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down shaun.nz/why-were-never-u... · Posted by u/jemmyw

epistasis · 2 months ago

As a Wise user, only for personal international transactions, I'm very curious to read this! I've had good experiences so far.

dimitri-vs · 2 months ago

I do dozens of transactions every month sending payments to various freelancers. Been doing this for five years and can count the numbers of times I hand problems making payments on one hand - all we're minor and resolved in just a few days.

dimitri-vs commented on Generative AI Image Editing Showdown genai-showdown.specr.net/... · Posted by u/gaws

herval · 2 months ago

Gemini is great when it gets it right, but in my experience, it sometimes gives you completely unexpected results and won't get it right no matter what. You can see that in some of the examples (eg the Girl with the pearl earring one). I'm constantly surprised by how good Flux is, but the tragedy is most people (me included) will just default to whatever they normally use (chatgpt and gemini, in my case), so it doesn't really matter that it's better

dimitri-vs · 2 months ago

Agreed, to the point where I built my own UI where I can simultaneously generate three images and see a before/after. Most often only one of three is what I actually wanted.