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…agent in early 2025 (this was my second one, my first modern-style coding agent was in Jan 2025): https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/3781 A couple of examples of the latter thing that I tend to work on are database internals (indexes,…

comment by tekacs · 2026-07-02 · in CursorBench 3.1

Am I misremembering cause I could have sworn that Aider started out as a nvim plugin?? https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider

comment by bluepeter · 2026-03-30 · in Neovim 0.12.0

…AFAIK, both projects are mostly one maintainer. [1] https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pulls [2] https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pulls

comment by pgroves · 2026-01-26 · in Vibe coding kills open source

…fun check out aider.chat. They actually log how much of each version was built by aider itself: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/releases

comment by troyvit · 2026-01-13 · in Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode

…release, v0.5.0, is dated 8 Jun 2025 [1] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJpK3YTTKZ4 [1]: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/releases/tag/v0.5.0

comment by bpavuk · 2025-12-21 · in Claude in Chrome

I came to the same conclusion. It's crickets over there: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/graphs/contributors

comment by esafak · 2025-11-27 · in Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding

Incredible hardware. Love that I can also run local llms on mine. https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/issues/4526

comment by __mharrison__ · 2025-10-31 · in My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4

I have a MBP with 128GB. Here's the pull request I made to Aider for using local models: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/issues/4526

comment by __mharrison__ · 2025-10-31 · in Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop

No MCP support ( https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/3937 ) makes it less useful than other tools (opencode.ai, Claude Code and etc)

comment by daliusd · 2025-10-18 · in Claude Code vs. Codex: I built a sentiment dashboard from Reddit comments

It does sometimes feel that all of these systems are slowly rediscovering that the OG, Aider ( https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider ), had a near perfect architecture for pair programming with LLMs from the start.

comment by rao-v · 2025-09-30 · in Claude Code 2.0

E.g. aider does not support MCP https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/issues/3314 I personally found MCP a must for some scenarios

comment by daliusd · 2025-08-02 · in Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

…tried Aider and it seemed a bit behind. It's not getting as much development as the others either: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pulse/monthly Compare with https://github.com/sst/opencode/pulse/monthly

comment by esafak · 2025-07-28 · in Claude Code Router

…Continue, Cline and Aider. https://github.com/continuedev/continue https://github.com/cline/cline https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider

comment by vunderba · 2025-07-20 · in Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

…of their code written by LLM (average code written by aider per release since then is about 65%.) https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/releases

comment by pama · 2025-07-15 · in LLM Inevitabilism

> and added jj support Please do the same for Aider :-) https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/issues/4250

comment by BeetleB · 2025-07-11 · in Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents

…dogfooding, but supposedly the last release of Aider [1] had the agent write 79% of its code. [1]: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/main/HISTORY.md#aider...

comment by Karrot_Kream · 2025-06-03 · in My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

…known benchmark[0] that you can check out to help select models. - Aider - https://aider.chat/ | https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider - Plandex - https://plandex.ai/ | https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex - Goose -…

comment by jasir · 2025-04-19 · in Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding

It'd be great if this (or similar) got merged: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/3781

comment by SparkyMcUnicorn · 2025-04-16 · in OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

As I mentioned it doesn’t, because someone has a PR out for that: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/3672 That said yes, it’d be a very quick addition.

comment by tekacs · 2025-04-13 · in Show HN: Navigator Mode (Like Claude Code) for Aider

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Show HN: Navigator Mode (Like Claude Code) for Aider

story by tekacs · 2025-04-13 · 5 comments

…support for autonomy in Aider (a lot like Claude Code) that hybridizes with the rest of the app: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/3781 Edit: In case anyone wants to try it, I uploaded it to PyPI as `navigator-mode`, until (and if!)…

comment by tekacs · 2025-04-13 · in Wasting Inferences with Aider

…example, I find the default temperature of 1 too high. For sample system prompts see Aider Chat: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/main/aider/coders/edi...

comment by rom16384 · 2025-03-31 · in Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison

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story by olalonde · 2025-03-27 · 0 comments

And why not contribute to Aider.chat at https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider

comment by Terretta · 2025-03-24 · in Janito – A Claude-powered CLI assistant for developers

…does). A) Aider gives very specific instructions about how Claude should describe patch operations: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/dd4d2420df51dc29c2aed... This works, but I don't know if anyone has tried using this technique in an…

comment by rahimnathwani · 2025-03-19 · in Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP

…enough set of in/excludes that I think that would get unwieldy for my use case. Details here: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/main/scripts/blame.py Again, nice work on your tool. I’ll spend some more time trying to harness it for my…

comment by anotherpaulg · 2025-03-18 · in Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming

…> The one thing I have not figured out yet is how to cleanly integrate AI tools into my workflow https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider

comment by sejje · 2025-02-13 · in Automating the Vim Workplace (2020)

…saving any of our time. however aren't examples supposed to be simple? Take it from Aider example: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider It asked to add a param and typing to a function. Would that save us more time? I don't think so. but it's…

comment by robertwt7 · 2025-02-03 · in Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions

…in model_settings_list: + MODEL_SETTINGS.append(ModelSettings(**model_settings_dict)) https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/commit/5095a9e1c3f82303f0b...

comment by anotherpaulg · 2025-01-29 · in Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code

…ollama context window [1]. [0] https://aider.chat/docs/llms/ollama.html#setting-the-context... [1] https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/main/aider/coders/bas...

comment by anotherpaulg · 2025-01-27 · in Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens

…on the LLM modifying code, but the LLM using trees to modify the code. See in Aider's sourcecode: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/tree/main/aider/queries Simple copy-pasting of "here's my prompt, give me code" was always doomed from the…

comment by fullstackchris · 2025-01-17 · in Thoughts on a month with Devin

…I honestly don’t know how us humans are meant to get LLMs to work on them. Please educate me. https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider Edit: The author of aider puts the percentage of the code written by LLMs for each release. It's been 70%+. But…

comment by qup · 2024-12-17 · in Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?

…dump(x) dump(foo) # prints... x: 3 foo: { "bar": 1, "baz": { "hello": "world" } } https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/main/aider/dump.py

comment by anotherpaulg · 2024-11-23 · in Don’t look down on print debugging

…7 https://www.github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/pull/16646 8 https://www.github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/2343 9 https://www.github.com/aboul3la/Sublist3r/pull/383 10 https://www.github.com/plotly/dash/pull/3073 11 https://ww

comment by dhx · 2024-11-13 · in Backdoor attempt on Exolabs GitHub repo through an innocent looking PR

use https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider clone any repo, use aider for Q&A about the code. Use aider to add features to the repo and do experiments with the code. Its a very interactive way to learn

comment by trees101 · 2024-11-03 · in Ask HN: What tools and practices have helped you work better as a developer?

…at the system prompts Aider uses. I think this is part of the secret sauce that makes it so good. https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/main/aider/coders/edi... excerpt: """ Act as an expert software developer. Always use best practices…

comment by kbaker · 2024-10-24 · in Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week

…support for AI, I would probably look into that [1]. llm uses opeanai directly [2]. Etc, etc. -- 1: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/e76704e261647348fd7c1... 2: https://github.com/simonw/llm/blob/d654c9521235a737e59a4f1d7...

comment by emmanueloga_ · 2024-10-19 · in Ask HN: What are some good APIs to interact with large language models?

aider llm of choice https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider

comment by qup · 2024-10-12 · in Ask HN: Best AI Code Assistant?

obligatory plug for aider: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider https://aider.chat/docs/usage.html I run aider in a terminal, and separately review and manually code in VSCode. Usint the `--no-auto-commits` switch means that I can…

comment by trees101 · 2024-09-03 · in Code Smarter, Not Harder: Developing with Cursor and Claude Sonnet

…that I'm using it practically yet. [0] https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/models [1] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/ [2] https://github.com/TrafficGuard/nous

comment by SparkyMcUnicorn · 2024-08-29 · in Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick

…and it creates that and the links to it in the other pages). You might also be interested in aider https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider for larger changes.

comment by IanCal · 2024-08-26 · in Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE

…Retrieval, Type Inference, Commit Message Generation, Repo-Level Coding* OT did not assess: Aider: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider : > Aider works best with GPT-4o & Claude 3.5 Sonnet and can connect to almost any LLM.…

comment by westurner · 2024-08-23 · in GitHub Named a Leader in the Gartner First Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants

…bleeding edge version at the same time without breaking anything, `pipx install --suffix=@dev git+ https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider.git ` then run it with `aider@dev` `aider@dev` ... with your desired settings

comment by trees101 · 2024-08-22 · in I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code

also, aider has added experimental support for prompt caching: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/issues/1086#issuecomm... I really like the control you get with aider over the LLM context. You can /add or /drop source code, markdown…

comment by trees101 · 2024-08-20 · in Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o

…a large context with minimal token usage by reading a repo's .git folder. impressive results [0] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider

comment by Liquix · 2024-08-20 · in Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o

A feature comparison to https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider would be great. Is this just a non interactive version of this kind of agent?

comment by SOLAR_FIELDS · 2024-07-26 · in Show HN: Patchwork – Open-source framework to automate development gruntwork

…model releases, but it takes same time to get used to and doesn't have good IDE-integration. [0]: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider

comment by hobofan · 2024-07-16 · in Codestral Mamba

…ist.github.com/vsigler/98eafaf8cdf2374669e590328164... [2] https://github.com/fabricjs/fabric.js/ [3] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider

comment by 037 · 2024-07-06 · in Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop

aider is pretty good - https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider

comment by nyellin · 2024-06-27 · in Claude 3.5 Sonnet

…other CLI tools are people using to work with LLMs in the terminal? There one comment here about https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider and Ollama is probably the most widely used CLI tool at the moment:…

comment by simonw · 2024-06-25 · in Language models on the command line