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Aider

Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.

Fig. 1
Aider's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
00.250.50.751AprMayJunJulAugSept
Aider%

Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.

Fig. 2
PyPI downloads a week: aider-chat
050.0K100.0K150.0K200.0K6 Jul20 Jul3 Aug17 Aug31 Aug14 Sept28 Sept12 Oct19 Oct
aider-chat

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Job ads naming it, by week

Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names Aider. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

  1. 10 Aug 0
  2. 17 Aug 0
  3. 24 Aug 1
  4. 31 Aug 3
  5. 7 Sept 2
  6. 14 Sept 0
  7. 21 Sept 0
  8. 28 Sept 0
  9. 5 Oct 0
  10. 12 Oct 0
  11. 19 Oct 0
  12. 26 Oct 0

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. Claude Code vs. Codex CLI vs. Aider vs. OpenCode vs. Pi vs. Cursor3 pts · 0 comments · 16 Oct
  2. Anomalyco/OpenCode, Aider-AI/aider, and Cline Review1 pts · 2 comments · 27 Aug

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