From 204a88c17134eebed4e535c10709ba8109da6a49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gauthier <paul@aider.chat>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 13:07:27 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Improve LLM empty response handling with clearer warning
 messages

---
 aider/coders/base_coder.py | 6 +++---
 aider/io.py                | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/aider/coders/base_coder.py b/aider/coders/base_coder.py
index 6d80629e0..44ee67957 100755
--- a/aider/coders/base_coder.py
+++ b/aider/coders/base_coder.py
@@ -1721,7 +1721,7 @@ class Coder:
 
     def show_send_output_stream(self, completion):
         received_content = False
-        
+
         for chunk in completion:
             if len(chunk.choices) == 0:
                 continue
@@ -1765,9 +1765,9 @@ class Coder:
                     sys.stdout.write(safe_text)
                 sys.stdout.flush()
                 yield text
-        
+
         if not received_content:
-            self.io.tool_warning("Empty response received from LLM.")
+            self.io.tool_warning("Empty response received from LLM. Check your provider account?")
 
     def live_incremental_response(self, final):
         show_resp = self.render_incremental_response(final)
diff --git a/aider/io.py b/aider/io.py
index ecab5a697..d328b6bb3 100644
--- a/aider/io.py
+++ b/aider/io.py
@@ -933,6 +933,10 @@ class InputOutput:
         return mdStream
 
     def assistant_output(self, message, pretty=None):
+        if not message:
+            self.tool_warning("Empty response received from LLM. Check your provider account?")
+            return
+
         show_resp = message
 
         # Coder will force pretty off if fence is not triple-backticks
@@ -944,7 +948,7 @@ class InputOutput:
                 message, style=self.assistant_output_color, code_theme=self.code_theme
             )
         else:
-            show_resp = Text(message or "<no response>")
+            show_resp = Text(message or "(empty response)")
 
         self.console.print(show_resp)