Developer Walk-Through of Aider, an Open Source Agentic CLI

Developer Walk-Through of Aider, an Open Source Agentic CLI

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 o…

Aider AI – Open source, terminal-based Cursor alternative

Aider is an Open Source, AI-powered command-line tool that helps you pair program with language models such as Sonnet, Deepseek, OpenAI, and more.