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In my journey through agentic command-line interfaces (CLI), I have finally come to a community-led open source effort, Aider. Ironically, this is one of the original agentic CLIs, and as you’ll see, it somewhat shows its age. I’ll see how it figures against my set of quality-of-life features for agentic AI and my short test.
The elevator pitch “Aider lets you pair program with LLMs to start a new project or build on your existing codebase” is one that chimes with my argument about where agentic CLIs excel. Subtle but well stated,…
