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In this video, I’ll be telling you about Ra-AID coder which is a new coder that claims to beat Cline & Cursor, but does it really? Today, we’ll test it and we’ll see how well it performs.
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Key Takeaways:
🔍 Raid is a new open-source autonomous coder built on LangGraph with a three-stage architecture (Research, Planning, Implementation).
🔄 It integrates with aider and offers features like human-in-the-loop mode, chat interface, and web research capabilities via Tavily API.
⚙️ Installation is simple via pip, and it supports multiple AI providers including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, OpenRouter, and Gemini.
⏱️ The agentic workflow is thorough but extremely token-heavy and time-consuming (600k tokens for a simple task).
🖼️ Testing on an image cropper app showed it could implement overlay functionality but missed important features like repositioning.
💡 It might be better suited for use with free/less capable models like Gemini rather than with already capable models like Claude.
🚀 While it has potential, its complexity and resource usage make alternatives like Claude Code or Aider more practical for many use cases.
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Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction
01:30 – Dart AI (Sponsor)
03:06 – Usage & Setup of Ra-AID
09:54 – Ending
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