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Comment by rane | Hacker News Reader

Aider is not agentic.

Could you provide some specific details about what is missing? I've been super busy studying and haven't been able to keep up with the gap between Aider and other tools. thank you!

E.g. aider does not support MCP https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/issues/3314

I personally found MCP a must for some scenarios

Do you mind sharing your anecdote about mcp being useful? I haven't had time to experiment and I'm trying to learn from others time on the grind stone.

Yes. Some ideas. All they are especially useful if you had to work with some non public stuff:

* Search GitHub for ideas how to use API, best practices and etc.

* Convert Figma design to code

* In slack-driver development companies you can even search Slack for ideas

Aider will follow through a single, rather specific request, from the user, which will generally result in changes one or more files that you need to explicitly add to the context.

Claude Code on the other hand, based on user's request, is capable of:

- researching the codebase to understand what needs to be done

- planning a TODO list for itself

- implementing the TODO list item by item

- running tests or typecheck etc. and iterating until checks pass

Basically if you give a sufficiently detailed plan as markdown to CC, it is capable of autonomously implementing the plan from start to finish, and that could even take something like 20 minutes.

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