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Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

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432 points tosh | 5 comments | 10 Apr 24 21:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.482s | 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. solumunus ◴[11 Apr 24 05:08 UTC] No.39998582[source]▶
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.
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2. hackerlight ◴[11 Apr 24 06:57 UTC] No.39999127[source]▶
Have you compared it to Sourcegraph Cody which also has a Jetbrains plugin? Same monthly cost as Supermaven.
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3. joshstrange ◴[11 Apr 24 10:38 UTC] No.40000668[source]▶
I’ve tried Cody Pro. I canceled my subscription in 3 days. The plugin (for JetBrains at least) gave auth and other errors regularly and when it did work its completions were “meh” at best.

I’ll admit some of that might be from me being used to what I get from GH Copilot but basic stuff like initializing a variable called “count” with `0` or “++”-ing it in a loop were both things it didn’t auto-complete. I switched back to Copilot and it did exactly what I expected.

The polish is lacking with Cody and the errors are completely unacceptable in a paid product. I’ve seen 2 Copilot outages the entire time I’ve been using it (since before GA) so to have Cody barf up stupid errors multiple times in a 3-day period is just ridiculous.

4. joshstrange ◴[11 Apr 24 10:40 UTC] No.40000680[source]▶
I’ll be trying this today, thank you for the suggestion. 300K context window is awesome.

I actually like completions more, it feels more natural. I’m fine to go to ChatGPT/Opus to chat if needed.

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5. solumunus ◴[12 Apr 24 07:44 UTC] No.40010295[source]▶
How did you get on?