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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. That edit format looks familiar! https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/d5a7aac560d4584d... https://aider.chat/docs/benchmarks.html
  2. …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…
  3. …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
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …[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
  7. …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…
  8. …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
  9. …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…
  10. …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…
  11. …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...
  12. …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
  13. …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
  14. …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
  15. …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
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    Paul-gauthier/aider: GPT powered coding in your terminal
    story by swyx · 2023-06-06 · 0 comments
  17. …(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
  18. …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....
  19. …aad4afc aider: Added helpful comments to Python script. [1] https://github.com/sigoden/aichat [2] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
  20. …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
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    Improving GPT-4's codebase understanding with ctags
    story by anotherpaulg · 2023-05-22 · 1 comment
  22. …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
  23. …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
  24. …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…
  25. …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
  26. …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…
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    Show HN: Aider, a command line GPT coding copilot
    story by anotherpaulg · 2023-05-11 · 4 comments
  28. …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