... Something that surprised me while building this week: "OpenAI-compatible" is a statement about the API shape, not about how code edits are expressed inside it. Aider does not use tool calls. It sends edits as structured text blocks SEARCH/REPLACE delimiters inside the assistant message. The filename is on the line before the fence, not inside it. Cline and Continue use proper tool calls. A response from some backends carries both. The adapter we shipped this week (`openai_ chat.py ... ... LineageLens proxy) handles all three patterns: tool-call edits, text-content edits (Aider

... like button. Benchmarks, benchmarks, benchmarks Benchmarks should always be taken with a grain of salt . They are effectively a snapshot of a models capabilities under near perfect conditions. Sort of like the Big Mac you see on the ads vs the Big Mac you get in the bag. It gives you a good idea, but they're far from a perfect measure of real world usage. Math (AIME 2025, no tools): 94.6 percent Real-world coding (SWE-bench Verified ... ... percent Multilingual programming (Aider