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Articles tagged "aider".

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Jan→Feb 2026
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25 min
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Articles tagged aider

8 min aiderpageranktree-sitter

How Aider's repomap uses PageRank and tree-sitter to rank your codebase

Aider parses your repo with tree-sitter, builds a symbol graph, and runs PageRank to pick which files the LLM should see. Here is how it works.

Claude Code Engineering 4/9

Your repo does not fit in the model’s context, so Aider has to choose what it reads.

7 min cursorfast-applydiffs

Why AI coding tools rewrite full files instead of using diffs

Cursor fast apply, Morph, and Aider all converge: full-file rewrites beat diffs under 400 lines. Three reasons rooted in how language models work.

Claude Code Engineering 2/9

The tool says it applied the fix. It applied none of it, and reports success.

10 min vibe-codingcursorclaude-code

How AI coding tools edit code: 6 things from shipping software with real users

What's actually happening when your AI coding tool rewrites a whole file, misses a diff, or loads files you never mentioned.

Claude Code Engineering 1/9

The tool reports four edits applied, makes two, and tells you nothing.

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