aider/examples

Using aider chat to code with GPT-4

Below are some example transcripts that show how you can chat with the aider command line tool to generate and edit code with GPT-4. Some things to note in the transcripts:

Transcript formatting

> The user's chat messages are bold and shown on a prompt line. They contain they user's change requests, clarifications, etc.

Output from the aider tool is shown in a blockquote

Responses from GPT-4 are in a plain font, and often include colorized code blocks that specify edits to the code.

Things to notice

In the aider output, you will see the tool:

• Adding certain source files to the chat (sometimes at the suggestion of GPT-4, always with user permission).
• Applying the edits proposed by GPT-4 to the source files.
• Committing those changes to git with a senisble commit message.

Example chat transcripts

There are a varity of example coding chat sessions included, accomplishing both greenfield generation of new code as well as simple and complex edits to larger codebases:

• Hello World Flask App: This example demonstrates how to create a simple Flask app with various endpoints, such as adding two numbers and calculating the Fibonacci sequence.

• 2048 Game Modification: This example demonstrates how to explore and modify an open-source javascript 2048 game codebase, including adding randomness to the scoring system.

• Pong Game with Pygame: This example demonstrates how to create a simple Pong game using the Pygame library, with customizations for paddle size and color, and ball speed adjustments.

• Complex Multi-file Change with Debugging: This example demonstrates a complex code change involving multiple source files and debugging with the help of aider.

• Semantic Search & Replace: This example showcases aider performing semantic search and replace operations in code, dealing with various formatting and semantic differences in the function calls that it updates.

• CSS Exercise: Animation Dropdown Menu: This example demonstrates how to complete a CSS exercise involving adding animation to a dropdown menu, creating a bounce illusion when the dropdown expands close to its final end state.

• Automatically Update Docs: This example demonstrates how to use aider to automatically update documentation based on the latest version of the main() function in the code.