[dimfeld]

Claude Code works similarly to Aider in that they both run in the terminal and write code using LLMs, but it shares no code with Aider as far as I know. Aider is written in Python and Claude Code in Javascript, among other reasons to think that it is not derived from Aider.

The tools also work very differently when you're actually using them, with Claude Code doing more of an agent loop and having very different methods of putting together the context to pass to the model.

[anacrolix]

I've struggled to get both to do anything useful. that said Claude code is consistent and doesn't error a lot