Mixed
In practice for reasons I don't understand, Aider's repo maps in this project are full of random useless stuff
mike_hearn on Hacker News
In the thread “My LLM codegen workflow”, replying to this comment
Helped: Aider allows easy control over which files are in the context.
Got in the way: Aider's repository maps contain random useless stuff in this project.
… And in theory, Aider computes a PageRank over symbols and symbolic references to find the most important stuff in the repository and computes a map that's prepended to the prompt so the model knows what to ask for. In practice for reasons I don't understand, Aider's repo maps in this project are full of random useless stuff. Maybe it works better for Python. …