Programming with LLM (using MCPs)

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Which models have you used with it so far? I like the claude sonnet one. I tried gemini and that completely disregarded the design of previous pages and did whatever it wanted, lol.

I was using auto just turned that off. it defaulted to composer.

any tips?

 

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I was using auto just turned that off. it defaulted to composer.

any tips?

So I lean heavily towards the claude ones... I think Opus, though, is really expensive. I haven't used it enough to tell the difference between pus and Sonnet though.

If I don't need the context of the code base, I'll use chatgpt or gemini or something, because everytime you use cursor, its going to use your codebase as the context, and that ups the cost.

Also, use it in "Plan"/"Ask" mode first for it to tell you what its thinking of doing. I like to adjust things in the plan before letting it start doing stuff. So far I haven't run into any issues like deleting files outside of the working folder/workspace. I think I even tried to get it to and that permission was pretty tight, so doesn't seem like there's a risk of it deleting a drive, like I heard about from antigravity

But talk to it like you would talk to a jr developer. Ask it to explain, tell you why, ask if there's any repetitive code, diagram out the flow of the app or data structures... its pretty good so far. And definitely make sure to use git. After each new feature or fix that I've tested to my liking, I commit

 

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But talk to it like you would talk to a jr developer. Ask it to explain, tell you why, ask if there's any repetitive code, diagram out the flow of the app or data structures... its pretty good so far. And definitely make sure to use git. After each new feature or fix that I've tested to my liking, I commit

i'm using github.