It can be used with Aider. Although I absolutely hate the way that Gemini 2.5 writes Rust. It writes it like it's a C++ developer who skimmed the Rust reference yesterday. Perhaps it's great for other languages though
Yeah, it is! SWE in a professional setting is changed for ever whether people like it or not.
No sane organization will accept anything less than forcing SWEs to use these tools moving forward. The details might differ and some will delay because "IP", but they'll all converge very quickly.
Not to say there's no joy in doing it the old-fashioned way on your own time :)