alt Hacker News>Also for inventing the code agent in the terminal category.
Not even close. That distinction belongs to Aider, which was released 1.5 years before Claude Code.
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bpavuk • yesterday at 9:17 AM
let me be a date-time nerd for a split second:
- Claude Code released Introducing Claude Code video on 24 Feb 2025 [0]
- Aider's oldest known GitHub release, v0.5.0, is dated 8 Jun 2025 [1]
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Oh cool, I didn’t know that.