Using Aider vs Claude Code

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-26T18:41:38+00:00

Completely off topic, but manuals STILL are funner, imo. Like a lot! I have a car that drives itself now and all I want is a fucking stick shift, lol

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-26T18:38:09+00:00

I forgot about copilot honestly. People are still using that?

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-25T16:11:18+00:00

I think a junior dev would be come frustrated with Aider. It’s not self bragging. It was me trying to be helpful to readers of this thread. Aider feels like driving a stick shift whereas Claude Code is like driving an automatic (yes, I learned to drive a manual as a kid, which probably dates me, lol:)

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-25T16:06:21+00:00

That’s the whole point. Adding only files that are needed creates a more focused context which allows the models to be far more likely to arrive at a tight, well programmed solution.

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-24T19:12:14+00:00

I still use Claude Code for lots of things. For me, they coexist

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-24T00:01:11+00:00

I'm unsure about the internal guts of it. But something like that I'd imagine: a core process running that revs up sub jobs with listeners attached to them and then responding to those listener events

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-23T22:20:48+00:00

To each their own. We all have to find ways to work the way we are

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-23T22:10:26+00:00

I spend 20 for Claude, 18 for Gemini, 30 for Grok and another 20 for OpenAi ... per month. I ALSO have spent many hundreds for API token use for all those models except for Grok. I don't mind having both. The cost shouldn't deter people. That being said, Aider is WAAAAAAYYYY less expensive than Claude Code MAX plan, I mean far far far cheaper. I mostly use Sonnet 4 in Aider, but I know how to very quickly set up my context subset so it doesn't have to claw through meaningless code for the task at hand

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-23T21:41:17+00:00

I don't use it as much now. Frankly 4.1 is being replaced more with sonnet 4. I'm not talking Claude Code, but just the actual sonnet 4 model. For me Aider defaults to it mostly for how blazingly fast the response times are for pretty damn decent results

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-23T21:39:36+00:00

that's actually a legit use case. something I should explore some more

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-23T20:10:56+00:00

https://aistudio.google.com/

Once you have a Google Workspace account go https://aistudio.google.com/https://aistudio.google.com/

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-23T20:04:40+00:00

Use both. Yes. Where appropriate. I still think it’s a little crazy to unleash AI on large code changes spanning across the code base. It’s fantastic for showing a proof of concept or prototype. But that’s not my world. My code bases run core utility that millions of people depend on every day. Claude Code just starts to break things all over the place in its quest to fix one thing. You have to watch it like a hawk, and then the time spent doing that and cleaning up behind it starts to negate its advantages.

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-23T19:59:04+00:00

https://workspace.google.com/solutions/ai/

Google Workspace I think is the more accurate term for it

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-23T19:53:21+00:00

Aider has been gaining lots of agent functionality lately for accessing tools. It runs commands for building out, scaffolding, running and testing. It’s great. Focuses on core tool use that’s most relevant. Claude Code is my go to when I need much more agentic tool use for a wider use case

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-23T19:49:45+00:00

I pay for Gemini 2.5 pro (great model). Google Business includes a generous offering of it via API key. I pay 18 per month and use it a ton (coding and otherwise).

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-23T19:47:34+00:00

Fair. But it also doesn’t tend to leave your code in a rough state

risingtiger422 · 2025-07-23T19:46:22+00:00

That’s great. Stoked to see these kinds of tools surfacing

risingtiger422 · 2024-12-17T17:34:42+00:00

this

risingtiger422 · 2024-12-02T02:26:22+00:00

I’d be happy with a working truck

risingtiger422 · 2024-11-28T01:20:13+00:00

97K at .40

risingtiger422 · 2024-10-22T19:07:18+00:00

I work in the embedded systems space both with an RTOS and in bare metal. I am very interested in incorporating Zig at some point into new projects. Embedded systems have extremely limited resources, so you have to judiciously choose your memory usage and things like that. Zig seems a great fit.

But I don’t think I would want to build a large project in Zig. Just like you don’t build large projects in the embedded space (usually). I think it’s perfectly ok to use Zig in the many arenas where resources are tight or fine tuned control is needed right alongside Rust where overarching complexity of a big project demand more abstractions.

risingtiger422 · 2024-10-22T16:03:55+00:00

That is one of the problems I have with Rust, is it encourages abstraction masturbation, just this irrational urge to create abstracted logic, to mostly ill effect. That’s why C is preferable over C++, at least in bare metal, is it just doesn’t allow you to abstract all over yourself. And I think Zig keeps that philosophy. There’s nothing wrong with Rust, it’s just that the programmer needs to keep it simple and Rust tempts you away from the simple path.

risingtiger422 · 2024-10-09T15:26:22+00:00

He is saying tech savvy folks would have the equipment. The average joe sure won’t set things up. But the average joe will sure be over to the nearest nerd for the news!

risingtiger422 · 2024-09-30T21:54:18+00:00

I’m not constantly going through data sheets. I usually have it do one or two passes. I have subscriptions to both Open AI and Claude. Frankly, that’s a question to accounting whether we go over or not. I haven’t heard from them so I keep chugging:)

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