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Comment by ErikBjare

1 month ago

Is it really that different to Claude with tools via MCP, or my own terminal-based gptme? (https://github.com/ErikBjare/gptme)

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TeMPOraL  1 month ago

I thought it's basically a subset of Aider[0] bolted into a VS Code fork, and I remain confused as to why we're talking about it so much now, when we didn't about Aider before. Some kind of startup-friendly bias? I for one would prefer OSS to succeed in this space.

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[0] - https://aider.chat/

  • Xmd5a  1 month ago

    I tried aider and had problems having it update code in existing files. Aider uses a search and replace pattern to update existing code. So you often end up with

        >>>SEARCH
        }
    >>>REPLACE
        }, {'more': 'data'}

    Of course aider will try to apply this kind of patch even when the search pattern matches several occurrences in the target file. Looking at the Github issues, this is a problem that was brought up several times and was never fixed because apparently it's not even problematic. I moved to cursor, which doesn't have this problem, and never looked back.

    • ErikBjare  1 month ago

      For what it's worth, gptme will refuse non-unique matches (and ask the LLM to try again). I thought Aider did too (easy win after all), but apparently not.

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  • tailspin2019  1 month ago

    Thanks for spreading the word. I hadn’t heard of Aider before and I’m now going to give it a try today.

  • SmellTheGlove  1 month ago

    Aider is the single best tool I’ve tried. And I’d never heard of it until like 2 weeks ago when someone mentioned it here. I love aider.

    • TeMPOraL  1 month ago

      The irony is, it's sort of a household name on HN for over a year now, being way ahead of what was available commercially on the market - and yet, it seems most people here haven't heard of it.

      (The author used to post a lot of insightful comments here about LLMs and other generative models, too.)

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  • ErikBjare  1 month ago

    This is why I was asking. My own gptme is also just slightly different from Aider and has been around roughly as long.