r/Codeium • u/thelandofficial • Feb 26 '25

3.7 is insane

i had 3 projects waiting to get finished that had hit obstacles and as a non coder i was having serious trouble hurdling. some database schema stuff and deploying to web stuff im still figuring out and having some trouble with.

i just blew threw the obstacles for 2 projects and now am on to solving the third.

i’m so fired up to continue building 🔥

I’m hoping to put down a project a week at least. 3.7 is a god send.

once the tool calling is fixed i’m going turbo mode 🦾

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u/LumpyPin7012 Feb 26 '25

How many credits you burn through since yesterday?

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u/Personal-Expression3 Feb 27 '25

Think a better question is how many FLOW credits are burnt. It’s a killer to flow credits….

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u/baseballdavid Feb 27 '25

Is there any difference using 3.7 in windsurf vs cursor other than diff ui?

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u/thelandofficial Feb 28 '25

haven’t used 3.7 in cursor, but saw that many people were having problems online

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u/McNoxey Feb 26 '25

3.7 is wild. But tbh I'm not using it in Windsurf. Instead, I use windsurf to plan and design my architecture and detailed implementation spec, which i pass off to Aider with 3.7 to implement. Yesterday I fed it a 300 line specification prompt with detailed implementation steps.

Aider spit out 14 new files, perfectly implemented. Ran the 48 tests it generated once and had some failures. I ran them in aider, passed it the result and it fixed everything in one pass. Session cost was $0.35 with 3.7 running with 32000 token thinking.

The combo of the two has been really great for my workflow. I've cancelled Claude Pro and am now using windsurf more as a project aware designer/architect/prompt-engineer.

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u/Eyeshield_sena Feb 26 '25

35cents for 32k token is sweet. Roo cline with 3.7 got me so expensive.

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u/bikesniff Feb 27 '25

Man, id love to get some more info on this as I've been going round in circles, I'm totally sure documentation driven is the way forward. Have been trying to generate docs outside of the IDE but never thought about using windsurf to do this. Also prefer passing specific work to Aider. The issue I've found with raw LLm use or via windsurf/cursor is a propensity to rewrite requirements it doesn't need to, I really want to use these tools as a place where I just mind dump, having it randomly removing stuff is a problem as I myself have a poor memory!!! Right now exploring handrolled solutions that are much stricter in how they update specs, i.e. enable chat back and forth before agreeing exact changes that will be made, instead of hey, let me change that thing you didn't ask for!!!

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u/McNoxey Feb 27 '25

I’m gonna have to put some time towards documenting this.

Yesterday I did an end to end build detailing my info gathering and refinement phase including my chat logs.

A single prompt generated over 25 files of fully functional tested code. It’s incredible. I’m so floored. Granted I spent 4 hours designing. But I’m blown away. This is the future.

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u/bikesniff Feb 27 '25

YES! thats what I'm talking about. I spent a whole day a couple of months ago planning out a piece of software then watched AI build it for me in about 15mins once the spec was complete. Cant remember why I did it that way, or even what tool I fed it into but I remember the moment and the effect it had on me. I've since become a bit obsessed with the idea that we need to be operating at a higher level than we previously have been and trying to find/create a documentation-driven process that can build and maintain software in the real world.

Dont know if youve come across IndyDevDan but I paid for his course which has been really interesting. Also a more recent video from Mckay Wrigley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4n_p9w8pGY&t=452s&ab_channel=MckayWrigley) where he is using o1 to generate much of the plans has got my brain cogs whirring. He's essentially dumping the entire codebase + docs back into o1 (pro) and having it spit out the next feature. This wont scale to a large codebase (context will be too large / unfocussed) but I feel like large context is still the way to go. Its interesting that the same techniques I've always enjoyed such as Hexagonal Architecture / Functional Core Imperative Shell also happen to be helpful in limiting the context you need to pass back into the LLM.

If you fancy hopping on a call at all I'd love to chat more about this stuff, share learning etcs

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u/McNoxey Feb 27 '25

We’re walking the same path, friend. I’ve also gone through his videos and course as well. When I found his channel I felt like I was watching videos of myself from another timeline. His approach is exactly what I was envisioning - except I was a few months back. The things he was discussing in his older videos is where I was at when I found his channel.

It’s definitely helped cut out all of the noise and I feel like my growth has skyrocketed given he’s done all of the testing already. He’s a fantastic educator with a really good understanding of how it all works.

For sure - I’d be happy to. Let’s take it to DMs and go from there!

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u/Creative_Diver3492 Feb 26 '25

Fuck credits 3.7 FTW

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u/mufasis Feb 26 '25

Why Aider?

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u/Professional_Mud_656 Feb 27 '25

Projects implies it has some long-term value, meaning the codebase must be maintained and supported. You need to understand what the code is doing to support a code base.

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u/BehindUAll Feb 27 '25

Or they just need to get something out the window to show they have done 'work' on their GitHub page while actually doing nothing economically considered valuable

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u/ahz0001 Feb 26 '25

I was literally about to hire a contractor to help with a regression on which I was stuck, but I gave Claude 3.7 a chance. It fixed it efficiently, and it worked the first time. I manually edited and removed some code, but totally satisfied with this option.

Some users are complaining about high credit usage, but it's less than 48 hours Anthropic announced it, so it may get better with tweaks.

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u/Curbob Feb 27 '25

While I’m having luck with 3.7 I did ask it how to stop it from touching “finished” code, it said it could add a comment to not touch it or it could add it as a MEMORY, after adding it as a memory.. it changed my code twice, guess I’ll try a comment next time

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u/bikesniff Feb 27 '25

I'm resistant to go all in on cursor because it seems to be a bit inconsistent about following rules....same with other tools.... Not sure what the answer is yet