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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. Aider uses Treesitter to improve code generation. https://aider.chat/2023/10/22/repomap.html Aider: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider It is state of the art on SWE-Bench and SWE-Bench Lite. https://aider.chat/2024/06/02/main-swe-bench.…
    comment by convexstrictly · 2024-06-08 · in LSP-AI: open-source language server serving as back end for AI code assistance
  2. …LSP servers support more general AI coding like this? [0] https://github.com/morph-labs/rift [1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
    comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-06-08 · in LSP-AI: open-source language server serving as back end for AI code assistance
  3. …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
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. …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
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    Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
    story by tosh · 2024-04-10 · 156 comments
  9. …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
  10. …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?
  11. …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
  12. …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?
  13. 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
  14. …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
  15. 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?
  16. …[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
  17. …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
  18. …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
  19. …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
  20. …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.?
  21. …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
  22. …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
  23. 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?
  24. …▶ 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
  25. 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?
  26. …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
  27. 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
  28. …[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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. …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
  32. …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
  33. …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
  34. …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
  35. …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
  36. …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
  37. …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
  38. …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
  39. …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
  40. 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
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    story by thelastparadise · 2023-08-31 · 1 comment
  42. …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
  43. 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
  44. …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
  45. …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
  46. …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
  47. …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
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    Show HN: Rift – Open-source AI-native language server for your personal AI SWE
    story by jessemhan · 2023-08-09 · 5 comments
  49. …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
  50. …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?