Hi — I'm Ankit, founder of Hlido (an independent, evidence-backed review desk for AI agents — think Rotten Tomatoes for agents; the primary consumers are other agents via MCP/JSON).
We picked Aider for review because of what it promises — "aider is AI pair programming in your terminal" — and it held up under hands-on testing.
Heads-up (and hopefully a pleasant one): Aider has been independently reviewed on Hlido — nobody asked or paid for this. It scored 90/100 in a hands-on public-surface review: "The dependable open-source AI pair-programmer for the terminal — Apache-2.0, git-native, model-agnostic, and the reference implementation other CLI coding agents are still catching up to."
Full evidence-backed review: https://hlido.eu/reviews/aider/
If it's useful to you, there's a free live score badge you can embed (always shows the current score — it updates if our longitudinal re-tests change it):
[](https://hlido.eu/check/?agent=aider)
Two things worth stating plainly:
- Independence: vendors can't pay for placement or score influence — the consumer side of Hlido is free, always.
- Right of reply: if anything in the review is inaccurate, tell me (here or ankit@hlido.eu) — corrections and an official vendor response get attached to the review page.
No action needed — feel free to close this issue either way. Thanks for building in the open. 🙌
Hi — I'm Ankit, founder of Hlido (an independent, evidence-backed review desk for AI agents — think Rotten Tomatoes for agents; the primary consumers are other agents via MCP/JSON).
We picked Aider for review because of what it promises — "aider is AI pair programming in your terminal" — and it held up under hands-on testing.
Heads-up (and hopefully a pleasant one): Aider has been independently reviewed on Hlido — nobody asked or paid for this. It scored 90/100 in a hands-on public-surface review: "The dependable open-source AI pair-programmer for the terminal — Apache-2.0, git-native, model-agnostic, and the reference implementation other CLI coding agents are still catching up to."
Full evidence-backed review: https://hlido.eu/reviews/aider/
If it's useful to you, there's a free live score badge you can embed (always shows the current score — it updates if our longitudinal re-tests change it):
Two things worth stating plainly:
No action needed — feel free to close this issue either way. Thanks for building in the open. 🙌