[ai-christianson]

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.

[c-hendricks]

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"