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danenania ◴[10 Apr 24 21:55 UTC] No.39996120[source]▶
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

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carom ◴[10 Apr 24 22:27 UTC] No.39996360[source]▶
How do you situate changes in a file? That seems like the hard part to me since the LLM can't necessary count to output a patch with line numbers.
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1. danenania ◴[10 Apr 24 22:36 UTC] No.39996418[source]▶
It does use line numbers, which definitely aren't infallible. That's why a `plandex changes` TUI is included to review changes before applying. Unfortunately no one has figured out a file update strategy yet that doesn't make occasional mistakes--probably we'll need either next-gen models or fine-tuning to get there.

That said, counting isn't necessarily required to use line numbers. If line numbers are included in the file when it's sent to the model, it becomes a text analysis task rather than a counting task. Here are the relevant prompts: https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex/blob/main/app/server/m...