Aider in Practice: What the Public Record Shows
Engineers praise Aider for letting them pick the model and the files it sees. Across 85 public accounts from January 2025 to October 2026, the argument has moved to autonomy and release pace.
Research
What is changing across AI coding agents?
Reading Aider's Polyglot Leaderboard in 2026
Aider's polyglot benchmark ranks how 2025 models edit code inside Aider, on 225 Exercism exercises with two attempts each. Its newest result is dated October 3, 2025, so test newer models on your own tasks.