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		didgeoridoo 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? Wow my first venture into Claude Code (which completely failed for a minor feature addition on a tiny Swift codebase) burned $5 in about 20 minutes. Probably related to Sonnet 3.7’s rampant ADHD and less the CLI tool itself (and maybe a bit of LLMs-suck-at-Swift?)

liveoneggs 7 months ago [–]

In my testing aider tends to spend about 1/10th the money as claude code. I assume because, in aider, you are explicit about /add and everything

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