Aider

So this applies to all coding agents, but I’m just exercising it with aider here. TBH I even trust aider pretty much and have more concerns with other beasts like Codename Goose, Claude Code, PI and others … … so in order to constrain those tools I first went with Docker … which felt like a natural choice. Especially since I’m pretty fluent with it … which I unfortunately still cannot say is true regarding systemd....

A few weeks ago, I came across Harper Reed’s blog post, My LLM codegen workflow atm, which made the rounds in the developer community. While his approach to using a LLM to collect and refine requirements was interesting, … what really caught my attention was him mentioning, that he uses Aider to let LLMs modify his code. So what is Aider? Simply put, Aider is a CLI tool that isn’t tied to a specific LLM....