Comment by CuriouslyC
1 day ago
I use Aider with a very tuned STYLEGUIDE.md and AI rules document that basically outlines this whole process so I don't have to instruct it every time. My preferred model is Gemini 2.5 Pro, which is definitely by far the best model for this sort of thing (Claude can one shot some stuff about as well but for following an engineering process and responding to test errors, it's vastly inferior)
How do you find Aider compares to Claude code?
I like Aider's configurability, I can chain a lot of static analysis stuff together with it and have the model fix all of it, and I can have 2-4 aider windows open in a grid and run them all at once, not sure how that'd work with Claude Code. Also, aider managing everything with git commits is great.
Can you talk more about the workflow you're using? I'm using Aider routinely myself, but with relatively unsophisticated approach. One thing that annoys me a bit is that prompts aren't obviously customizable - I'm pretty sure that the standard ones, which include code examples in 2 or 3 different languages, are confusing LLMs a bit when I work on a codebase that doesn't use those languages.
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