Do you find that the time you spend splitting a feature up into small chunks and explaining each small chunk to the LLM takes longer than just writing the code yourself?
I've used aider but found just pounding out some code in neovim to be faster. Perhaps I'm not using aider correctly.
I do think that it can take maybe a little more time with aider but this time investment pays itself off as soon as there is some complexification or issue that LLMs can't fix.
See, if you have no idea of what kind of architecture was used for the passed 150 commits, it will take more time to debug or see if a given new featufe you have in mind is doable without major refactoring for example.
This will probably matter less as LLMs grow more powerful I admit
I've used aider but found just pounding out some code in neovim to be faster. Perhaps I'm not using aider correctly.