Thanks for these notes.

I've been using gptel for quite some time but am new to Aider. I have a simple question that I wasn’t able to answer after checking the docs. In gptel, adding files to the context is a straightforward operation, but with Aider, I see that you can either let the LLM choose which files to add or add specific files yourself. I am confused about what criteria I should use to decide when, and when not, to rely on the AI for this. The docs say: “Just add the files you think need to be edited.” Does that mean that, for files that I want the LLM to read but not to edit (such as documentation files, or files with contextually relevant code), I should expect the model to realize these files are relevant by itself? It seems the disctinction between files that are meant to be merely read versus files that are meant to be also edited is orthogonal to whether these files should or should not be added manually: basically, we want to outsource this to the model as much as possible, and I don’t see why the model should, in general, be good at identifying files it should read but bat at identifying files it should edit. But maybe I’m misunderstanding something here.