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NoAider, Claude Code · 5 Sep 2025

It wanted to send so many tokens to sonnet that I hit the limits before it even started actually doing any coding

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In the thread “Development speed is not a bottleneck”, replying to this comment

Helped: Claude Code produced a mostly working fix in minutes.

Got in the way: Aider hit token limits before starting any coding.

… I only told it to look at one service I knew needed changes, because it says it works better in smaller code bases. It wanted to send so many tokens to sonnet that I hit the limits before it even started actually doing any coding. Instant fail. …