Why is dormant Aider still LLMs' top recommendation for open-source coding harnesses?
marlene_zw · x · 2026-09-23
A developer wonders why Aider is always the first answer when asking LLMs about open-source coding harnesses, despite its GitHub repo seeing no commits for four months and few people actually using it anymore.
The post highlights a counterintuitive quirk: model recommendations lag community adoption badly — once training data is frozen, stale tools keep dominating a model's top picks, a reminder not to rely on model suggestions alone when choosing tooling.
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