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People quite like aider! I’m not as much of a fan of the CLI workflow but it’s quite comparable, I think.

I've heard about it but is the outcome as good as claude code?

In short - it's like comparing Ubuntu with MacOS/Windows

Open source power vs corp - if you are eager to do some stuff yourself, aider is probably a better pick (or even a strategic investment); otherwise you'll simply find much more tools that don't require setting them up in Cline/Claude Code

But man, if you're on ycombinator.com, how not to stick with open source?

I enjoy using Aider, but it's not agentic: it cant run your tests for you, for example.

It sort of can:

https://aider.chat/docs/usage/lint-test.html#testing

Roo Code, or Cline. You can allow it to run everything by itself and just watch.

I've been preferring to use Copilot agent mode with Sonnet 4, but it asks you to intervene a lot.

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