Comment by phist_mcgee
3 days ago
It's both Claude 4 Opus and the secret sauce that Claude Code has for UX (as well as Claude.md files for project/system rules and context) that is the killer I think. The describe, build, test cycle is very tight and produces consistently high quality results.
Aider feels a little clunky in comparison, which is understandable for a free product.
Yes. The tooling harness of Claude Code is really good, and Claude 4 is well-optimized for it. The combination is very powerful.
I think it’s also very nice that CC uses fancy search and replace for it’s edit actions. No waiting hours for the editor to scan over a completely regenerated file.