aider mentions (22)

• Maker of AI 'vibe coding' app Cursor hits $9B valuation

  > Makes it an easier sell to devs, "you don't have to 'change' editors" and it makes setup easier if you happen to be using VSC But tying it to an editor (including VSCode) means "you have to change editors". I don't use VSCode, so any solution requiring it is a no-go. When we have aider[1], which works with any editor/IDE, I just don't see the value in trying Cursor, et al. [1] https://aider.chat/. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Claude Code Best Practices

  There's Aider, Plandex and Goose, all of which let you chose various providers and models. Aider also has a well known benchmark[0] that you can check out to help select models. - Aider - https://aider.chat/ | https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider. - Source: Hacker News / 18 days ago

• Gemini 2.5 Flash

  Maybe I am not understanding something here. But there are third party options availabe that to the very same thing (e.g. https://aider.chat/ ) which allow you to plug in a model (or even a combination thereof e.g. Deepseek as architect and claude as code writer) of your choice. Therefore the advantage of the model provider providing such a thing doesn't matter, no? - Source: Hacker News / 19 days ago

• OpenAI Codex

  "gemini 2.5 pro exp" is superior to Claude Sonnet 3.7 when I use it with Aider [1]. And it is free (with some high limit). [1]https://aider.chat/. - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

• OpenAI Codex

  You don't pay monthly fee to use OpenAI models through the API. You pay per token. https://openai.com/api/pricing/ There are other CLI coding agents like Aider (https://aider.chat/) that will let you point at any model. The problem is that local models are dramatically worse than these big hosted models — I have not seen anyone claim they are good enough for these kind of tools. See... - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

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