alt Hacker News> Also for inventing the code agent in the terminal category.
Maybe I am wrong, but wasnt aider first?
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afro88 • yesterday at 9:08 AM
Aider wasn't really an agentic loop before Claude Code came along
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> Also for inventing the code agent in the terminal category.
Maybe I am wrong, but wasnt aider first?
Aider wasn't really an agentic loop before Claude Code came along
They are not at all the same thing. For starters, even ‘till this day, it doesn’t support ReAct-based tool calling.
It’s more like an assistant that advices you rather than a tool that you hand full control to.
Not saying that either is better, but they’re not the same thing.