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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. …[2] for it, even though I don't know anything about that codebase or even how to write golang. [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [1] https://aider.chat/examples/2048-game.html [2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/pull/502
  2. …tools" have been sharing ideas. You might be interested in joining the conversation over there. [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [1] https://aider.chat/examples/2048-game.html [2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow/pull/502…
  3. …out `aider` if they want to do the style of AI coding you're showing, but on their own git repos. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
  4. …window? Try including fewer files in the chat. See some notes on GPT models and file sizes here: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider#gpt-4-vs-gpt-35 I also have some incoming improvements so the tool is more graceful and helpful if you…
  5. …access to gpt-4-32k, you could edit files up to about 120 kbytes. See the notes here for more info: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider#gpt-4-vs-gpt-35 I use GPT for all kinds of busy work, and code quality type work. Adding test cases…
  6. …that were file by users by just pasting the issue into my tool... it fixed itself. Links below: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/issues/13#issuecommen... https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/issues/5#issuecomment...
  7. …as the user comes up with new features, etc? Can it be used to work on a pre-existing codebase? [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
  8. …repo for a js game: https://aider.chat/examples/2048-game.html Here a link to aider with more info: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
  9. …thinking along the same lines. I've used my tool aider to solve a couple of issues filed by users: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/issues/13#issuecommen... https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/issues/5#issuecomment...
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-06-14 · in Function calling and other API updates
  10. …the new 3.5 model solves both of these problems. I'll be running some benchmarks to find out! [1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider#gpt-4-vs-gpt-35 EDIT: On point (2) above... early experiments with gpt-3.5-turbo-16k seem to indicate…
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-06-13 · in Function calling and other API updates
  11. …(not gpt-3.5-turbo) since it can successfully generate larger, more complicated code changes. [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36020809 [2] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/easy-chat [3]…
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-06-06 · in Tips for better coding with ChatGPT
  12. …work better with larger, pre-existing codebases. I wrote up some notes on one effective approach: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/docs/ctags....
  13. …aad4afc aider: Added helpful comments to Python script. [1] https://github.com/sigoden/aichat [2] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
  14. …As we went along, I had it write the code for all that as a python script in my local git repo. [1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [2] https://aider.chat/examples/census.html
  15. …coding the old fashioned way. I realized this when GPT-4 went down for an hour or so last week. [1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
  16. …in an asciinema screencast recording, for example[3]. [1] https://github.com/sigoden/aichat [2] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider [3] https://aider.chat/examples/asciinema.html
  17. …with these on my own fork, and make a PR if I have success): 1. The main prompt is pretty long ( https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/aider/promp... ), but I suspect that it could be abbreviated. I'm think the same…
  18. …api key, which openai charges you for. But it's a pretty great way to collaborate with AI on code. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
  19. …to undo missteps or manage a long series of changes. You can find out more about aider on GitHub: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider I was initially using GPT to generate code snippets with the OpenAI web chat UI and generic ChatGPT…
  20. …like a very nice workflow. @mazzystar you might want to give it a try if you have GPT-4 api access: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2023-05-10 · in The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals