This is exactly how I use agent mode in Cursor. I’ve never understood why I would use aider. Am I missing something else?
Possibly: I'm a neovim person and barely leave the terminal. So naturally aider fits perfectly into my setup. There are even neovim plugin for having aider directly in it.
That said, I don't get why people are fine switching their IDE to cursor. Lile, if you're in an IDE it's because it has features you want that others didn't. So either cursor does not have them or if it does then you have to configure the whole cursor IDE to work like your original IDE.
In total you've either lost features or been captured into a new walled garden. And lost some time in the process.
Aider's use of litellm makes it 5s change to switch to the latest models. And it's always up to date thanks to uvx.
No really I don't get why people are not using aider more.
Plus the dev is lovely, responsive and helpful.
Cursor is a VS Code fork. Anyone coming from VS Code, one of the most popular editors in the ecosystem, will immediately be comfortable. The full marketplace of extensions is compatible. The switchover is effectively seamless besides a handful of keyboard shortcuts used for the new AI features.