[geoka9]

My "agentic" experience is mostly Aider, working across a Golang webapp codebase. I've mostly used Gemini (whatever model Aider chooses to use at the moment).

Most of my experience has been similar to yours. But yesterday, out of the blue, it spit out a commit that I accepted almost verbatim (just added some line breaks and stuff). I was actually really surprised: not only it followed the existing codebase conventions and variable naming style, but also introduced a couple of patterns that I haven't thought of (and I liked).

But it also charged me $2 for the privilege :) (On a related note, Gemini API has become noticeably more expensive compared to, say, a month ago.)

I find that with Aider managing context (what files you add to it) can make all the difference.

[sokoloff]

That $2 represents how many minutes of your annual labor? 2 minutes? Less than 1 if you account for all the non-coding drag on your tota working time?