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Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

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Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

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Post by fyrn_ »

tyoma wrote: post #2

I’ve used aider to understand new codebases using technologies I don’t know and it did a fantastic job; much faster than grep/find + google.

To be fair in a world of good LSP impls, grep/find are really primative tools to be using. Not saying this isn't better then a more sophisicated editor setup, just that grep and find are a _really_ low bar

Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

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Post by shadowgovt »

fyrn_ wrote: post #4
tyoma wrote: post #2

I’ve used aider to understand new codebases using technologies I don’t know and it did a fantastic job; much faster than grep/find + google.

To be fair in a world of good LSP impls, grep/find are really primative tools to be using. Not saying this isn't better then a more sophisicated editor setup, just that grep and find are a _really_ low bar

When we reach that world, let me know. I'm still tripping over a "python-lsp-server was simply not implemented async so sometimes when you combine it with emacs lsp-mode it eats 100% CPU and locks your console" issue.

Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

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Post by danenania »

People interested in Aider (which is an awesome tool) might also be interested in checking out my project Plandex[1]. It's terminal-based like Aider and has a somewhat comparable set of features, but is more focused on using LLMs to work on larger and more complex tasks that span many files and model responses. It also uses a git-style CLI approach with independent commands for each action vs. Aider's interactive shell.

I studied Aider's code and prompts quite a bit in the early stages of building Plandex. I'm grateful to Paul for building it and making it open source.

1 - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex

Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

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Post by pax »

I revisited Aider a couple of days ago, after going in circles with AutoGPT - which seemed to either forget or go lazy after a few prompts - to the point it refused to do something that it did a few prompts before. Then Aider delivered from the first prompt.

PS. I've gathered a list of LLM agents (for coding and general purpose) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M3cQmuwhpJ4X0jOw5XWT...

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