Aider is an open-source AI pair-programming tool that runs in the terminal and ships its own coding benchmark, the Aider benchmark. Recent coverage focuses on benchmark results: Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next scored 41.1% first-try pass versus 40.2% for its base model while cutting tokens and time, and a third-party evaluation found ThinkingCap and Swift fine-tunes reduced Qwen3.8-27B's median reasoning tokens from 12,547 to about 7,400 with little change in pass rates. Ordewell, a tool for ordered coding-agent plans, also appeared.
Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next shines in benchmarksA user's comparison shows Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next scored 41.1% first-try pass on the Aider benchmark versus 40.2% for the base model, while cutting tokens per case from 17,646 to 6,991 and time from 1,542s to 608s, sharply reducing overthinking.
Benchmark: ThinkingCap vs Swift vs Qwen 3.8-27BA third-party Aider evaluation found that ThinkingCap and Swift fine-tunes cut Qwen3.8-27B's median reasoning tokens from 12,547 to about 7,400, a roughly 40% reduction matching their model cards, with first-try pass rates of 27.1%-30.8% and retry pass rates of 75.7%-77.6%, showing no meaningful performance loss.
Ordewell: ordered plans of coding-agent tasksOrdewell turns one goal into an editable, typed plan of tasks where each task has its own runner, model, and mode and only completes when a unique completion marker appears. Plans can be rewritten before tokens are spent, preserve completed work, and support multiple runners (built-in Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode). Requires Node.js ≥20 and the TUI needs tmux.
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