Aider

Aider is a command-line tool that allows you to chat with GPT about your code. It can make changes, improvements, and bug fixes to your code with the assistance of GPT. Each change is automatically committed to git with a sensible commit message.

Features

• Chat with GPT about your code by specifying a set of source files to discuss
• Request changes, improvements, and bug fixes to your code
• Aider will apply the edits suggested by GPT.
• Aider will automatically commit each change to a git repo with a sensible commit message, providing safety, edit history and easy undo with normal git tools
• Live, colorized, human friendly output
• Can make coordinated changes across multiple source files
• Readline style chat input history, with autocompletion of tokens found in source files being discussed
• Use Control-C to safely interrupt GPT if it isn't providing a useful response
• Aider will notice if asked to discuss files with uncommitted changes and offer to commit them before proceeding

Installation

1. Clone the repository.
2. Install the required packages using pip install -r requirements.txt.
3. Set up your OpenAI API key as an environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY or by including it in a .env file.

Usage

Run the Aider tool by executing the following command:

aider <file1> <file2> ...

Replace <file1>, <file2>, etc., with the paths to the source code files you want to work on.

You can also use additional command-line options to customize the behavior of the tool. For more information, run aider --help. Many defaults can be set with .env or environment variables, see the help output.

Limitations

Aider basically requires GPT-4 for the main chat functions. You can invoke it with aider -3 to try using gpt-3.5-turbo, but it will almost certainly fail to function correctly. GPT-3.5 is unable to follow directions and generate code changes in a stable, parsable format.

Aider also can only edit code that can fit in the context window. For GPT-4 that is 8k tokens. If you have access to gpt-4-32k, I would be curious to hear you experiences using it with aider.