[dhc02]

Aider, with o1 or R1 as the architect and Claude 3.5 as the implementer, is so much better than anything you can accomplish with a single model. It's pretty amazing. Aider is at least one order of magnitude more effective for me than using the chat interface in Cursor. (I still use Cursor for quick edits and tab completions, to be clear).

[dwaltrip]

I haven't tried aider in quite a while, what does it mean to use one model as an architect and another as the implementer?

[Terretta]

Aider now has experimental support for using two models to complete each coding task:

- An Architect model is asked to describe how to solve the coding problem.

- An Editor model is given the Architect’s solution and asked to produce specific code editing instructions to apply those changes to existing source files.

Splitting up “code reasoning” and “code editing” in this manner has produced SOTA results on aider’s code editing benchmark. Using o1-preview as the Architect with either DeepSeek or o1-mini as the Editor produced the SOTA score of 85%. Using the Architect/Editor approach also significantly improved the benchmark scores of many models, compared to their previous “solo” baseline scores (striped bars).

https://aider.chat/2024/09/26/architect.html

[ChadNauseam]

I normally use aider by just typing in what I want and it magically does it. How do I use o1 or R1 to play the role of the "architect"?

[macNchz]

You can start it with something like:

    aider --architect --model o1 --editor-model sonnet

Then you'll be in "architect" mode, which first prompts o1 to design the solution, then you can accept it and allow sonnet to actually create the diffs.

Most of the time your way works well—I use sonnet alone 90% of the time, but the architect mode is really great at getting it unstuck when it can't seem to implement what I want correctly, or keeps fixing its mistakes by making things worse.

[aledalgrande]

Same with Cline