Stale Aider Still Tops LLM Recommendations, Raising Data Contamination Questions

A developer noticed LLMs still rank Aider as the top open-source coding harness despite four months without updates, proposing training data contamination; tests also showed Opus 5 misidentifying the Pi harness as a coworker.

2026-09-23 ~ 2026-09-23 · 3 related posts

• Why is dormant Aider still LLMs' top recommendation for open-source coding harnesses? — marlene_zw · 2026-09-23
• Why is dormant Aider (no commits in 4 months) still the top open-source harness LLMs recommend? — marlene_zw · 2026-09-23
• Opus 5 hilariously guesses "Pi" is teammate Sarah when asked about coding harness — marlene_zw · 2026-09-23