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Aider vs Continue

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Aider scored 78/100 and Continue scored 52/100. The gap is 26 points on the rubric. Nothing else is inferred.

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Aider

78 / 100

Rank 2 on this job · tested 15 Oct 2026

Continue

52 / 100

Rank 3 on this job · tested 16 Oct 2026

Rubric breakdown

  • Job result (40)32 Aider12 Continue
  • Speed and effort (15)12 Aider6 Continue
  • Price and free tier (15)15 Aider15 Continue
  • Ease of start (10)5 Aider6 Continue
  • Reliability and trust (10)8 Aider6 Continue
  • Community signal (10)6 Aider7 Continue

Evidence · Aider

Aider 0.86.2 with local ollama/qwen2.5-coder:3b. Two prompts, 49s then 82s. Final files passed tsc and the same checks. Evidence: evidence/2026-10-16/ca6/aider/.

Evidence · Continue

Continue CLI 1.5.47 with a local Ollama config. Ping returned pong. The task reply in 86s included a trailing debounce and a handler whose import is an unterminated string. tsc reported TS1002. The repair reply was tool-call JSON and did not change the file. Evidence: evidence/2026-10-16/batch3/continue/.

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