[anotherpaulg]

I have been enjoying a chat based AI coding modality. I built some tooling that gets rid of the need to cut & paste code between the chat and your files. This makes chatting about code changes much more ergonomic. My tool also integrates directly with git, which provides a safety net. It’s easy to undo changes if the AI does something silly.

Here are some chat transcripts that give a flavor of what it’s like to code with AI this way:

https://aider.chat/examples/

My tool is open source, and currently only works if you have a gpt-4 api key.

[tyree731]

Very cool. I’ve been using ChatGPT quite manually for similar effect here, though I’m often using it for fragments of code less than whole projects/files, given I’m often dealing with an existing codebase.

[anotherpaulg]

A lot of my recent work has been focused on making this chat style coding work better with larger, pre-existing codebases.

I wrote up some notes on one effective approach:

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/docs/ctags....