I think it makes sense to want that, but at least for me personally I’ve had dramatically better overall results when manually managing the context in Aider than letting Claude Code try to figure out for itself what it needs.
It can be annoying, but I think it both helps me be more aware of what’s being changed (vs just seeing a big diff after a while), and lends itself to working on smaller subtasks that are more likely to work on the first try.
You get much better results in CC as well if you're able to give the relevant files as a starting point. In that regard these two tools are not all that different.
It can be annoying, but I think it both helps me be more aware of what’s being changed (vs just seeing a big diff after a while), and lends itself to working on smaller subtasks that are more likely to work on the first try.