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aider is AI pair programming in your terminal

128 mentions on Hacker News by 54 people: 8 stories, 120 comments · first 2023-05-10 · latest 2026-07-02

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  1. …to invoke pip for the self upgrade capability. I used `sys.executable` for a similar purpose. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/ebeec04caee7ebe4...
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-05-14 · in GPT-4o
  2. …making it more approachable for folks who are not fully comfortable on the command line. [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [1] https://aider.chat/2024/05/02/browser.html
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-05-03 · in I Spent 24 Hours with GitHub Copilot Workspaces
  3. …For example, it produced this markdown version [1] of the pyinfra getting started doc [2]. [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/aider/scrap... [1] https://gist.github.com/paul-gauthier/6c8dd16a6bceb9fd287494... [2]…
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-05-01 · in 2markdown – Transform Websites into Markdown
  4. …but plandex went into some kind of loops a couple of times so I stoped using it for now. [1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by Cilvic · 2024-04-29 · in GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview
  5. …be happy to help you if you'd like to open an GitHub issue [1] our jump into our discord [2]. [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider#tips [1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/issues/new/choose [2] https://discord.gg/Tv2uQnR88V
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-04-11 · in Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
  6. …features with another similar solution like aider[1] which also helps solve similar problem. [1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by wanderingmind · 2024-04-03 · in Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks
  7. …IDE/editor. Aider will notice your edits and make sure the AI is aware as your chat continues. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-03-31 · in Ask HN: Is anybody getting value from AI Agents? How so?
  8. …does, whereby you force the LLM to generate a git diff for the fix and automatically commit it. 1. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by biddit · 2024-03-22 · in Show HN: Leaping – Debug Python tests instantly with an LLM debugger
  9. …but they might be able to configure it so it uses Claude Another tool to check out could be aider https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by nico · 2024-03-17 · in Ask HN: If you've used GPT-4-Turbo and Claude Opus, which do you prefer?
  10. Are you aware of the work on https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider ? What's your take on generating code diffs directly instead of code editing instructions?
    comment by randomoctopus · 2024-03-12 · in Launch HN: Glide (YC W24) – AI-assisted technical design docs
  11. …code and the tools are plentiful. It's very "Unix" and hacker friendly. I'm imagining a tool like https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider (which I haven't tried yet, but it looks useful for this kind of effort).
    comment by ydant · 2024-03-08 · in The Man in Seat 61
  12. OpenAI API key with GPT4 plus aider[1]: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider For reference against the actual product called “Copilot”, I would say this is actually useful, vs Copilot which I would use words like “glorified autocomplete”…
    comment by SOLAR_FIELDS · 2024-03-07 · in Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
  13. …[0] https://playwright.dev/python/docs/intro [1] https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc [2] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [3] https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4-and-gpt-4-turb... [4]…
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-02-20 · in Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide
  14. …the hang of it. It might be worth looking through some of the tips on the aider github page: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider#tips In particular, this is one of the most important tips: Large changes are best performed as a sequence…
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-02-01 · in DeepSeek Coder: Let the Code Write Itself
  15. …GPT can understand the relevant parts of the larger code base when making a specific change. [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [1] https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-02-01 · in DeepSeek Coder: Let the Code Write Itself
  16. …code. Most recently, aider adopted unified diffs as the GPT 4 Turbo code editing format [1]. [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [1] https://aider.chat/docs/unified-diffs.html
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-01-19 · in Show HN: Voxos.ai – An Open-Source Desktop Voice Assistant
  17. …to use GPT instead of Copilot, is something like Aider [1] but not in Python and maybe a TUI. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [1] https://github.com/pramatias/hnotify
    comment by emporas · 2024-01-18 · in Is A.I. The Death of I.P.?
  18. …then ask for the actual change. Spend the time to ask for code quality/structure improvements. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider#tips
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-01-02 · in LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
  19. …seamless “pair programming” workflow, where you and GPT are editing the files together as you chat. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-01-02 · in LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024
  20. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider Not a very big learning curve.
    comment by qup · 2023-12-25 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite tools?
  21. …▶ print(f"{prefix} one {suffix}") ⋮... It's a heuristic, but it seems to work well in practice. [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [1] https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-12-10 · in AST-grep(sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting
  22. Aider: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by qup · 2023-11-24 · in Ask HN: Any AI-based Code Assistants for web CRUD apps?
  23. …key, so you pay them for token usage as opposed to the all-you-can-eat $20/month ChatGPT web UI. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-11-16 · in Types of Conversations with Generative AI
  24. Aider might be what you are looking for https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by jorl17 · 2023-11-16 · in Show HN: OpenAI dev assistant GUI with local code interpreter
  25. …[2] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/tla/commits/main/tla.sh [3] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/f6aa09ca858c4c82...
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-11-15 · in Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym
  26. You probably wanted to link to https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/tree/main
    comment by bryanlarsen · 2023-11-13 · in Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts
  27. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/aider/promp... (Not my project, just use it a lot)
    comment by qup · 2023-11-13 · in Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts
  28. …language implementations at runtime. There's an open issue you might want to follow for updates: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/issues/321
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-11-09 · in Benchmarking GPT-4 Turbo – A Cautionary Tale
  29. …similar benchmarking approaches. https://github.com/AbanteAI/mentat/blob/main/tests/benchmark... https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/benchmark/p... Edit: Not sure if the mentat authors are in this thread? After looking around…
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-11-09 · in Benchmarking GPT-4 Turbo – A Cautionary Tale
  30. …map for bunch of languages already, see below. Is there one in particular you need that is missing? https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/tree/main/aider/queri...
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-11-07 · in New models and developer products
  31. …If you're able, maybe file an issue and I'd be happy to try and help make it work better for you. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/issues
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-11-07 · in New models and developer products
  32. …now supports these new models, including `gpt-4-1106-preview` with the massive 128k context window. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/releases/tag/v0.17.0
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-11-07 · in New models and developer products
  33. …now supports these new models, including `gpt-4-1106-preview` with the massive 128k context window. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/releases/tag/v0.17.0
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-11-07 · in New models and developer products
  34. …code bases. You can jump into an existing git repo and start aaking for changes, new features, etc. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider It helps gpt understand larger code bases by building a "repository map" based on analyzing the…
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-11-06 · in New models and developer products
  35. …here but I’ve been using someone’s tool called aider for a more integrated experience for coding: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider It’s got a few QoL improvements it could use, especially with larger code bases, but otherwise works…
    comment by SOLAR_FIELDS · 2023-11-05 · in Copilot for Obsidian - OpenAI API and LocalAI Interface Inside Obsidian
  36. …on a smooth “AI pair programming” chat workflow, and directly integrates with your local git repo. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-10-05 · in I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
  37. Aider does this too, using a background thread to summarize the messages older than the last N. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/aider/histo...
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-09-03 · in Recursively summarizing enables long-term dialogue memory in LLMs
  38. …pair programming tool runs in the terminal. You can work alongside in whichever editor you prefer. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-08-27 · in Cody – The AI that knows your entire codebase
  39. I know about https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider . Have you got a link to any others?
    comment by sean_flanigan · 2023-08-25 · in Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding
  40. …not just python. And it can do a lot of other coding tasks. It's like pair programming with an AI. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-08-24 · in Maccarone: AI-managed code blocks in Python
  41. …on a developer salary the $70-200 a month is absolute peanuts compared to what you get in return 1: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by SOLAR_FIELDS · 2023-08-23 · in GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
  42. …update solutions. Anyone want to do this for fun, you can have your own agenda, I'm just bored! https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider https://www.mentat.codes/ https://www.gitwit.dev/ https://www.second.dev/
    comment by kindawinda · 2023-08-13 · in Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python
  43. …for connecting to other/local LLMs and an active community of folks experimenting with them. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-08-12 · in Using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to clear our GitHub backlog
  44. …a coding chat where you ask gpt to edit the code and your own editor to make edits yourself. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-08-06 · in Jupyter AI
  45. …your code with an LLM agent (github.com/bloopai) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36260961 2) https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider 3) Show HN: GPT Repo Loader – load entire code repos into GPT prompts (github.com/mpoon)…
    comment by tikkun · 2023-08-06 · in Ask HN: Which GPT-powered coding assistants exist?
  46. That edit format looks familiar! https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/d5a7aac560d4584d... https://aider.chat/docs/benchmarks.html
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-08-01 · in Chunking 2M files a day for code search using syntax trees
  47. …it just changed or related tests and letting GPT figure out how to fix problems. Here are the docs: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider#in-chat-commands Here is a chat transcript that shows gpt-4 fixing code after being shown failing…
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-07-27 · in Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot
  48. …learnings about building these coding assistants. Please join if you’d like to compare notes. [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [1] https://aider.chat/docs/ctags.html [2] https://discord.gg/FTYDTRKZ
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-07-27 · in Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot
  49. …on a library that was released after 2021 and it’s not as immediately helpful a lot of the time. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by SOLAR_FIELDS · 2023-07-25 · in Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?
  50. …AI coding assistant tool. I've had numerous users request this over the past couple of months: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/issues/7 Feels like it would be unwise to build atop something unofficial like this?
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-07-15 · in Claude 2 Internal API Client and CLI