> While it is not recommended, --no-auto-commits will stop aider from git committing each of GPT’s changes.
Why is it recommended to not quickly review the changes (git status, git diff) before committing?
Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
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Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
#92So many AI coding agents popping up that claim to build entire projects but all I'm interested in (happy to pay): - Review GitHub PR and suggest fixes. - Improve the readability of code with a single command (devs suck at naming variables). - context aware autocomplete for real
> - context aware autocomplete for real
If the AI tool can fetch related classes for the code that I'm working with that would be so helpful!
Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
#93People 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 she…
Can we get someone to automate stuff like copying files, renaming stuff, setting env variables, any common tasks done in an OS.
open interpreter can do that
Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
#94I'm interested in this and will probably set it up but I wish more AI tools were better integrated to my IDE. I know GH Copilot is and other big AI tools have plugins with chat/edit features but most of the cool open source doesn't seem to support IDEA/JetBrains. I see the power of LLMs. I use GH Copilot, I use ChatGPT, but I crave deeper integration in my existing toolset. I need to force myself to try in-IDE Copilo…
In my experience, Supermaven makes Copilot look like a joke, and they’ve just released a Jetbrains plugin. YMMV. It’s just code suggestions though, no chat box.
Have you compared it to Sourcegraph Cody which also has a Jetbrains plugin? Same monthly cost as Supermaven.
Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
#95I have this 300 line Go application which manages git tags for me. I asked it to implement a -dry-run function. It failed twice. First time it just mangled the file. Second time it just made code that didn't do anything. I asked it to rename a global variable. It broke the application and failed to understand scoping rules. Perhaps it is bad luck, or perhaps my Go code is weird, but I don't understand how y'all wanna…
In my experience, these things work much better with Python than with anything else
Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
#96With all these AI tools requiring a prompt, does it really simplify/speed up things? From the example: I have to write "add a name param to the 'greeting' function, add all types", then wait for the result to be generated, read it carefully to be sure that it does what I want, probably reiterate if the result does not match the expectation. This seems to me more time consuming than actually do the work myself. Does a…
Personally the use for me has been in writing boilerplate. As an example, one of my ongoing goals has been to port all the view code of a project to another framework, following its idioms. Using an LLM, I can process a file in a couple of seconds, and checking that everything is right takes just a few seconds as well. It’d take me hours to go through every file manually, and it’d be prone to human error. It’s not te…
> Using an LLM, I can process a file in a couple of seconds, and checking that everything is right takes just a few seconds as well. It’d take me hours to go through every file manually
Can you explain more how "checking everything is right takes just a few seconds as well? A code review can't happen in "just a few seconds" so maybe I don't understand what the process your describing really is
Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
#97With all these AI tools requiring a prompt, does it really simplify/speed up things? From the example: I have to write "add a name param to the 'greeting' function, add all types", then wait for the result to be generated, read it carefully to be sure that it does what I want, probably reiterate if the result does not match the expectation. This seems to me more time consuming than actually do the work myself. Does a…
Personally the use for me has been in writing boilerplate. As an example, one of my ongoing goals has been to port all the view code of a project to another framework, following its idioms. Using an LLM, I can process a file in a couple of seconds, and checking that everything is right takes just a few seconds as well. It’d take me hours to go through every file manually, and it’d be prone to human error. It’s not te…
> Personally the use for me has been in writing boilerplate.
We live in a world with everything from macro systems and code generation to higher-order functions and types... if you find yourself writing the same "boilerplate" enough times that you find it annoying, just automate it, the same way you can automate anything else we do using software. I have found myself writing very little "boilerplate" in my decades of software development, as I'd rather at the extreme (and it almost never comes to this) throw together a custom compiler than litter my code with a bunch of hopefully-the-same-every-time difficult-to-adjust-later "boilerplate".
Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
#98With all these AI tools requiring a prompt, does it really simplify/speed up things? From the example: I have to write "add a name param to the 'greeting' function, add all types", then wait for the result to be generated, read it carefully to be sure that it does what I want, probably reiterate if the result does not match the expectation. This seems to me more time consuming than actually do the work myself. Does a…
Personally the use for me has been in writing boilerplate. As an example, one of my ongoing goals has been to port all the view code of a project to another framework, following its idioms. Using an LLM, I can process a file in a couple of seconds, and checking that everything is right takes just a few seconds as well. It’d take me hours to go through every file manually, and it’d be prone to human error. It’s not te…
thanks for the reply! I'll try it for commenting.
Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally the use for me has been in writing boilerplate. As an example, one of my ongoing goals has been to port all the view code of a project to another framework, following its idioms. Using an LLM, I can process a file in a couple of seconds, and checking that everything is right takes just a few seconds as well. It’d take me hours to go through every file manually, and it’d be prone to human error. It’s not te…
> Using an LLM, I can process a file in a couple of seconds, and checking that everything is right takes just a few seconds as well. It’d take me hours to go through every file manually Can you explain more how "checking everything is right takes just a few seconds as well? A code review can't happen in "just a few seconds" so maybe I don't understand what the process your describing really is
In the example I gave, it was just porting the same view code from one framework's way of writing view code to another. It's a one-off task involving hundreds of different views.
There's zero technical challenge, almost no logic, super tedious for a human to do, not quite automatable since there could be any kind of code in those views, and it's very very unlikely that the LLM gets it wrong. I give it a quick look over, it looks right, the tests pass, it's not really a big deal.
And one nice thing I did as well was ask it to "move all logic to the top of the file", which makes it -very- easy to clean up all the "quick fix" cruft that's built up over years that needs to be cleaned up or refactored out.
In those cases the file might indeed need more time dedicated to it, but it would've needed it either way.
Re: Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
#100With all these AI tools requiring a prompt, does it really simplify/speed up things? From the example: I have to write "add a name param to the 'greeting' function, add all types", then wait for the result to be generated, read it carefully to be sure that it does what I want, probably reiterate if the result does not match the expectation. This seems to me more time consuming than actually do the work myself. Does a…
Personally the use for me has been in writing boilerplate. As an example, one of my ongoing goals has been to port all the view code of a project to another framework, following its idioms. Using an LLM, I can process a file in a couple of seconds, and checking that everything is right takes just a few seconds as well. It’d take me hours to go through every file manually, and it’d be prone to human error. It’s not te…
I don't have the impression I'm writing too much boilerplate, but I am curious about this as I have heard it multiple times: are there more examples of boiler plate that an LLM is better/faster at generating than a couple of copy/paste? If it's more than a couple than copy/paste and it's time for a rewrite, do you leverage AI for this? how do you usually introduce the abstraction?