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278 points ianrahman | 6 comments | 20 Dec 25 21:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.797s | source | bottom
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CAP_NET_ADMIN ◴[20 Dec 25 23:47 UTC] No.46340821[source]▶
Let's spend years plugging holes in V8, splitting browser components to separate processes and improving sandboxing and then just plug in LLM with debugging enabled into Chrome. Great idea. Last time we had such a great idea it was lead in gasoline.
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sheepscreek ◴[21 Dec 25 02:49 UTC] No.46341782[source]▶
This made me want to laugh so hard. I think this idea came from the same place as beta testing “Full Autopilot” with human guinea pigs. Great minds…

Jokes aside, Anthropic CEO commands a tad more respect from me, on taking a more principals approach and sticking to it (at least better than their biggest rival). Also for inventing the code agent in the terminal category.

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1. mejutoco ◴[21 Dec 25 08:51 UTC] No.46343274[source]▶
> Also for inventing the code agent in the terminal category.

Maybe I am wrong, but wasnt aider first?

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2. afro88 ◴[21 Dec 25 09:08 UTC] No.46343367[source]▶
Aider wasn't really an agentic loop before Claude Code came along
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3. mejutoco ◴[21 Dec 25 09:23 UTC] No.46343434[source]▶
I would love to know more. I used aider with local models and it behaved like cursor in agent mode. Unfortunately I dont remember exactly when (+6 months ago at least). What was your experience with it?
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4. stingraycharles ◴[21 Dec 25 09:51 UTC] No.46343606[source]▶
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.

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5. CuriouslyC ◴[21 Dec 25 16:01 UTC] No.46345727[source]▶
Aider was designed to do single turns becasue LLMs were way worse when it was created. That being said, Aider could do multiple turns of tool calling if command confirmation was turned off, and it was trivial to configure Aider to do multiple turns of code generation by having a test suite that runs automatically on changes and telling Aider to implement functionality to get the tests to pass. It's hard coded to only do 3 autonomous turns by default but you can edit that.
6. afro88 ◴[21 Dec 25 18:10 UTC] No.46346807{3}[source]▶
I was a heavy user, but stopped using it mid 2024. It was essentially providing codebase context and editing and writing code as you instructed - a decent step up from copy/paste to ChatGPT but not working in an agentic loop. There was logic to attempt code edits again if they failed to apply too.

Edit: I stand corrected though. Did a bit of research and aider is considered an agentic tool by late 2023 with auto lint/test steps that feedback to the LLM. My apologies.