Cline + Sonnet 3.7 has been giving me great results on smaller projects with popular languages
chaboud on Hacker News
In the thread “OpenAI o3 and o4-mini”, replying to this comment
Helped: Using models for boilerplate and smaller projects with popular languages.
Got in the way: Pure prompt-coded projects produce subtle ugliness and context saturation issues.
I recently exclaimed that “vibe coding is BS” to one of my coworkers before explaining that I’ve actually been using GPT, Claude, llama (for airplanes), Cline, Cursor, Windsurf, and more for coding for as long as they’ve been available (more recently playing with Gemini). Cline + Sonnet 3.7 has been giving me great results on smaller projects with popular languages, and I feel truly fortunate to have AWS Bedrock on tap to drive this stuff (no effective throttling/availability limits for an individual dev). Even llama + Continue has proven workable (though it will absolutely hallucinate language features and APIs). …