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 A user has shared the following transcript of a pair programming chat session
 created using <a href="https://aider.chat">aider</a>.
 
+Aider is a command line tool that lets you pair program with GPT-3.5 or
+GPT-4, to edit code stored in your local git repository.
+You can start a new project or work with an existing repo.
+And you can fluidly switch back and forth between a coding chat where you ask
+GPT to edit the code and your own editor to make changes yourself.
+Aider makes sure edits from you and GPT are committed to the git repo
+with sensible commit messages.
+
+
+## Transcript format
+
+<div class="chat-transcript" markdown="1">
+
+> This is output from the aider tool.
+
+#### These are chat messages written by the user.
+
+Chat responses from GPT are in a blue font like this,
+and often include colorized "diffs" where GPT is making changes
+to the source code in the repo.
+Here's a sample edit block that switches from printing "hello" to "goodbye":
+
+```python
+hello.py
+<<<<<<< ORIGINAL
+print("hello")
+=======
+print("goodbye")
+>>>>>>> UPDATED
+```
+</div>
+
+## Shared chat transcript
+
 <div class="chat-transcript">
 </div>