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I don't like Cursor, because I like PyCharm as my very awesome IDE. Claude Code is a terminal app, it's something that I just issue commands to and it mostly works, and then I check everything in PyCharm.

I tried Aider a couple of months ago and it gave me crappy code. Maybe it was the model I used back then, but I didn't like it. I had much better experience with Claude Code.

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There are valid criticisms of Aider (I feel like it might use more tokens than it needs to, but I haven't done a lot of comparisons), but output quality is certainly the model.

Are you running it from the built-in terminal in PyCharm? I also use that IDE and want to give this a swing.

Can you elaborate on "check everything in pycharm?"

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