Aider vs Continue: Two Modes of Terminal AI Coding
Aider offers interactive CLI-based pair programming with git awareness. Continue provides IDE-integrated AI assistance. Learn when to use each.
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Aider offers interactive CLI-based pair programming with git awareness. Continue provides IDE-integrated AI assistance. Learn when to use each.
An AI coding agent rebuilding the same tag all day fills a disk fast. The mechanism, the truth about volume pruning, and a systemd timer that fixes it.
Anubis puts a proof-of-work gate in front of your site. Real policy file config, weights and thresholds, Caddy wiring, and the false positives you hit.
What is an AI harness? A plain-language answer, plus 21 of them grouped by job: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kilo Code, Goose, OpenHands and DeepSeek Harness.
Run several Claude Code accounts on one Linux machine. CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR plus symlinks share your skills, hooks and history while each login stays isolated.
Free AI tiers are loans against a future price, paid in your data, your architecture, or your time. Here's the collateral to check before you build on one.
Image upscaling with Real-ESRGAN, super-resolution AI models, ComfyUI workflows, and practical upscaler comparison for self-hosted setups.
Master ControlNet and LoRA for precise image generation control in Stable Diffusion. Learn Canny edges, depth, pose, scribbles, tiling, and style stacking in ComfyUI.
API vs self-hosted LLM cost reality, GPU TCO, privacy, latency, break-even math. When paying OpenAI/Anthropic wins. When local wins.
Free AI image generators win on convenience but lose fast on volume, style consistency, and control. Here's the real break-even against running your own GPU.
RAG beyond dense embeddings: BM25 lexical search, hybrid retrieval (RRF, weighted fusion), cross-encoder re-rankers (BGE, Cohere, Jina). When pure vector search fails.
Free LLM tiers usually die from bloated prompts, not stingy quotas. Context discipline, caching, tiering, batching, and backoff that triple your runway.