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As someone who just adopted Cursor (and MCP) 2-3 weeks ago, Aider seems like a different world.

The examples of "create a new simple video game" cause me to glaze over.

Do you have a screencast of how you use aider to develop aider? I'd love to see how a savvy expert uses these tools for real-world solutions.

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I actually get asked for screencasts a lot, so I made recently made some [0].

The recording of adding support for 100+ new coding languages with tree-sitter [1] shows some pretty advanced usage. It includes using aider to script downloading a collection of files, and using ad-hoc bash scripts to have aider modify a collection of files.

[0] https://aider.chat/docs/recordings/

[1] https://aider.chat/docs/recordings/tree-sitter-language-pack...

This is perfect. Thank you!

This is excellent, thank you.

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