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by ai-christianson 493 days ago
In their tool comparison section they did mention aider, but they did not mention RA.Aid (https://github.com/ai-christianson/RA.Aid, Apache 2.0), which puts aider in a full-fledged development agent.

The experience of using RA.Aid is similar to using cline (or Devin), but it is a simple CLI command and not tied to any IDE. In fact you could use tmux, nvim, and RA.Aid in chat mode and have an experience that is not far off from vscode with cline, cursor, or windsurf.
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aqme28 493 days ago
How does this differ from Aider's Architect mode? I never used it, but it was my impression that that was the same idea.
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ai-christianson 493 days ago
The architect mode in aider is basically a one step planning pass.

RA.Aid goes way beyond this. It will run fuzzy find, ripgrep, directory listings, web search via, ask the expert (reasoning models), multiple task planning, execution of shell commands and unit tests, etc.

It essentially follows a research, planning, and implementation cycle much like a human SWE would.

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c-hendricks 493 days ago
As far as I can tell aider does most, if not all, of that as well. The only things I'm unsure about is "ask the expert" and "multiple task planning"
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