Aider

“Re: "Claude Code vs Aider (2026): Premier Agentic AI Programmer in 2026?". Aider is less expensive, even with the same models. It's pair programming which keeps you closer to the code. I like it.”

“Hi HN — I built this in my off-hours over the last 3 months. Sharing now because I just filed the provisional patent yesterday (US 64/050,345) and the repo is freshly public.The frustration that started it: every time I use a coding agent (Cursor, OpenCode, Aider, Claude Code, et...”

“I built ait because the AI coding agents I use daily — Claude Code, Codex CLI, Aider — are fast individually, but no tool lets me put two of them in the same loop. You pick one. It runs. You hope it's right. That's not multi-agent — that's single-agent with chat history.ait is a ...”

“I feel you. I'd prefer to stick entirely with local open source models. I tried using Aider and Qwen last week, and while it's still impressive what it can do with just local resources and entirely for free, its error rate is too high, and it's clearly not remotely in the same le...”

“I have some notes for a blog along the same lines, called "Determinism vs Agents". I had the same experience with MANDATORY.Agents are also very slow compared to code. By the time it takes for the agent to ingest the system prompt + your prompt then to send a tool call to search ...”