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Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

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432 points tosh | 1 comments | 10 Apr 24 21:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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joshstrange ◴[10 Apr 24 22:17 UTC] No.39996290[source]▶
I'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 Copilot Chat. My habit is to go to ChatGPT for anything of that nature and I'm not sure why that is. Sometimes it's the same way I break down my search to for things "I know I can find" then put together the results. In the same way I break down the problem into small pieces and have ChatGPT write them individually or somethings additively.

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1. thomashop ◴[11 Apr 24 02:49 UTC] No.39997950[source]▶
I've been using https://cursor.sh/ heavily for about 2 months and I'm pretty happy.

Cursor is a fork of VSCode focused on AI. I'd prefer to use something totally open-source, but Cursor is free, gets regular updates, and I can use my OpenAI API key.

The diff view works well with AI coding assistants. I end up parallelizing more. I let cursor do its thing while I'm already looking at the next file.

I love aider too! Have used it to automate things such as maintaining a translated version of the page in a git pre-commit hook.