Comment by rane

Aider will follow through a single, rather specific request, from the user, which will generally result in changes one or more files that you need to explicitly add to the context.

Claude Code on the other hand, based on user's request, is capable of:

- researching the codebase to understand what needs to be done

- planning a TODO list for itself

- implementing the TODO list item by item

- running tests or typecheck etc. and iterating until checks pass

Basically if you give a sufficiently detailed plan as markdown to CC, it is capable of autonomously implementing the plan from start to finish, and that could even take something like 20 minutes.