Comment by anotherpaulg
6 days ago
Fun project with a nice compact code base. Agreed that ad-hoc scripting agents can be very powerful.
Aider has had support for scripting [0] in python or via the command line for a long time.
I made a screencast [1] recently that included ad-hoc bash scripting aider as part of the effort to add support for 130 new programming languages. It may give a flavor for how powerful this approach can be.
[0] https://aider.chat/docs/scripting.html
[1] https://aider.chat/docs/recordings/tree-sitter-language-pack...
Paul!!!
I first made a scripting tool of aider that I didn't open source: (https://cloudcoding.ai)
Scripting with aider gives lower level control but this is also its shortcoming to why I prefer scripting Claude code.
Claude code is like a better architect mode and people want higher and higher levels of abstraction away from the coding and more towards the vibing.
Adding Swift (and 129 others) in March was a big deal, thank you.