So I installed litellm proxy, pointed it at the new Cerebras API with Qwen-235B and hooked up Aider to litellm. This is not as good as claude code yet but it's so much faster. I even tried using the leaked claude code prompt into Aider but it doesn't do what I expect. Still worth trying but I learned that claude code's prompt is very specific to claude. I think this is very promising however! Aider basically spat out a bunch of text, installed some stuff, made some web calls & exited. WAS REALLY FAST LOL.

you can repeat my experiment quickly with the following>

config.yaml for litellm ``` model_list: - model_name: qwen3-235b litellm_params: model: cerebras/qwen-3-235b-a22b api_key: os.environ/CEREBRAS_API_KEY api_base: https://api.cerebras.ai/v1 ```

run litellm with ``` litellm --config config.yaml --port 4000 --debug ``` (may need to install litellm[proxy])

start aider with ``` aider --model cerebras/qwen-3-235b-a22b --openai-api-base http://localhost:4000 --openai-api-key fake-key --no-show-model-warnings --auto-commits --system-file ./prompt.txt --yes ```

install whatever you need with pip etc. prompt.txt contains the leaked claude code prompt which you can find yourself on the internet.