Comment by Terretta
1 day ago
> I can’t get into using AI tools like Claude Code. As far as I go is chat style where I’m mostly in control.
Try aider.chat (it's in the name), but specifically start with "ask" mode then dip a toe into "architect" mode, not "code" which is where Claude Code and the "vibe" nonsense is.
Let aider.chat use Opus 4.1 or GPT-5 for thinking, with no limit on reasoning tokens and --reasoning-effort high.
> agents are a boon for extraverts and neurotypical people.
On the contrary, I think the non-vibe tools are force multipliers for those with an ability to communicate so precisely they find “extraverts and neurotypical people” confounding when attempting to specify engineering work.
I'd put both aider.chat and Claude Code in the non-vibe class if you use them Socratically.
thanks for this, going to try it out - i need to use paid api and not my claude max or gpt pro subn, right?
Aider actually has a mode that is called "copy-paste" where it basically gives you a context to paste in an LLM chat and then you copy-paste back the reply to aider
Sounds like extra steps