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Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

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vander_elst ◴[11 Apr 24 05:53 UTC] No.39998806[source]▶
With 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 anyone has examples where promoting and double checking is faster than doing it on your own? Is it faster when exploring new solutions and "unknown territory" and in this case, are the answers accurate (from what I tried so far they were far off)? In that case how do you compare it with "regular search" via Google/Bing/...? Sorry for the silly question but I'm genuinely trying to understand
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1. mikrotikker ◴[11 Apr 24 09:34 UTC] No.40000260[source]▶
Yea that's where I've landed. Telling it what to do is time consuming.

Telling it what I want to do in a broader term and asking for code examples is a lot better., especially for something I don't know how to do.

Otherwise the autocomplete/suggestions in the editor is great for the minutia and tedious crap and utility functions. Probably saves me about 20% typing which is great on hands that have typing for 20 odd years.

It's also good for finding tools and libraries (when it doesn't hallucinate) since https://libs.garden disappeared inexplicably (dunno what to do on Friday nights now that I can't browse through that wonderful site till 2am)