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When we first started building RA.Aid, we saw an opportunity to combine the powerful editing capabilities of the AI programming tool Aider with the flexibility of a LangGraph ReAct agent loop. The vision was clear: create an autonomous coding assistant that could intelligently navigate large codebases, identify relevant files, break down complex tasks into manageable steps, and implement changes with minimal intervention. Initially, integrating Aider made perfect sense. Aider excelled at handling multi-file edits, seamlessly integrating Git workflows, and applying code changes through LLM-generated unified diffs. It allowed RA.Aid to immediately offer sophisticated, context-aware coding assistance out-of-the-box. Developers could issue high-level instructions, and RA.Aid—through Aider—would reliably execute those edits, reducing the back-and-forth typical of early AI tools. ...