Aider invents APIs on large, private codebases
On large projects, Aider invents APIs and calls functions from outdated docs because it cannot see current library or dependency sources.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 5 August 2024 · last reported 22 March 2025
What's going wrong
Users of Aider, an AI coding assistant that edits code in a terminal, report that on large projects it often makes up functions and calls that do not exist.
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