alt Hacker NewsI think Aider is closest to what you want.
The chat interface is optimal to me because you often are asking questions and seeking guidance or proposals as you are making actual code changes. On reason I do like it is that its default mode of operation is to make a commit for each change it makes. So it is extremely clear what the AI did vs what you did vs what is a hodge podge of both.
As others have mentioned, you can integrate with your IDE through the watch mode. It's somewhat crude but still useful way. But I find myself more often than not just running Aider in a terminal under the code editor window and chatting with it about what's in the window.
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Aider can be a chat interface and it's great for that but you can also use it from your editor by telling it to watch your files.[1]
So you'd write a function name and then tell it to flesh it out.
function factorial(n) // Implement this. AI!
function factorial(n) {
if (n === 0 || n === 1) {
return 1;
} else {
return n \* factorial(n - 1);
}
}
I'm really curious to try Mistral's vibe, but even though I'm a big fanboi I don't want to be tied to just one model. Aider lets tier your models such that your big, expensive model can do all the thinking and then stuff like code reviews can run through a smaller model. It's a pretty capable tool
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> I think Aider is closest to what you want.
> The chat interface
Seems very much not, if it's still a chat interface :) Figuring out a chat UX is easy compared to something that was creating with letting LLM fill in some parts from the beginning. I guess I'm searching for something with a different paradigm than just "chat + $Something".