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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: 0s | source
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paradite ◴[10 Apr 24 23:22 UTC] No.39996710[source]▶
If you prefer GUI with more space to write task requirements, or use your existing ChatGPT/Claude subscription without additional API costs, you can check out my desktop app: https://prompt.16x.engineer/
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visarga ◴[11 Apr 24 05:26 UTC] No.39998668[source]▶
Everyone has one, I just made a script to print all the files in the current folder to the terminal. I have .context-ignore files to exclude some patterns, similar to .gitignore The first file is a README.md that contains my initial description of what I am working on. At the end I type a new command. I copy & paste the text into chatGPT web interface.

I think I used it for 10-15 rounds of iteration on my latest project and it generated about 50% of the code of a web app with Python backend. Pretty sweet and costs nothing on top of the web subscription. The funny part is that I was using this AI coding tool to build another AI tool to manage a collection of prompts and demonstrations including automatic prompt evaluation, so I was using an AI tool to make another AI tool.

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1. paradite ◴[11 Apr 24 06:01 UTC] No.39998848[source]▶
That's exactly how I started as well, I was using a similar workflow to build an AI-driven game.

Then I thought maybe it's a good idea to turn it into something less ad-hoc, more user-friendly, and work for any project.