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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: 0.208s | source
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perbu ◴[11 Apr 24 06:08 UTC] No.39998892[source]▶
I have this 300 line Go application which manages git tags for me. I asked it to implement a -dry-run function. It failed twice. First time it just mangled the file. Second time it just made code that didn't do anything.

I asked it to rename a global variable. It broke the application and failed to understand scoping rules.

Perhaps it is bad luck, or perhaps my Go code is weird, but I don't understand how y'all wanna trust this.

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mike_hearn ◴[11 Apr 24 12:05 UTC] No.40001228[source]▶
Which model? I've used Aider a bunch and for tasks like that GPT-4 has worked pretty well. But 3 would not be able to do it.
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1. wrasee ◴[11 Apr 24 12:27 UTC] No.40001384[source]▶
That’s why I’m not fully jumping in yet, as I think even GPT 4 is borderline. I’m grateful for those investing their energy into building things like this (and no doubt many will be successful) but I’m happy to remain an interested observer until the next generation when I think the value proposition may be much more evident.