[Glyptodon]

At least for me stupid bugs like this turn out to be some of the most time wasting to debug, no AI involved. Like accidentally have something quoted somewhere, or add an 's' to a variable by accident and I may not even correctly process what the error message is reporting at first. Always feel a bit silly after.

[Noumenon72]

These kinds of problems are often avoidable by linters or asking ChatGPT what is wrong, though I was just tearing my hair wondering why TSC_COMPILE_ERROR wasn't skipping TypeScript because I spelled it TSX_COMPILE_ERROR in my environment variable.

[viraptor]

Not only asking ChatGPT what is wrong, but also using an agent which does self-reflection by default. I'm sad every time I see people using the bare chat interface to generate code. We've got API tools which are so much better at it today. Use Aider at the very least.

[floydnoel]

does aider have an executable installer yet? i tried installing it but the python experience is terrible. last time i messed with python installs on my mac everything worked like shit until o reinstalled the OS.

[viraptor]

    python -mvenv aider
    aider/bin/pip install aider-chat
    aider/bin/aider

And you're done. There's also a docker version https://aider.chat/docs/install/docker.html

Just don't mess with the system-wide installed version of python and it will be fine. This isn't a python specific issue though.

[trees101]

`pipx install aider-chat`

(https://aider.chat/docs/install/pipx.html will install it globally on your system within its own python environment. This way you can use aider to work on any python project, even if that project has conflicting dependencies.)

I run it with these settings: `aider --sonnet --no-auto-commits--cache-prompts`

if you want to run the most bleeding edge version at the same time without breaking anything,

`pipx install --suffix=@dev git+https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider.git`

then run it with `aider@dev`

`aider@dev` ... with your desired settings

[Glyptodon]

Subtle typos easily misread are

[arcticfox]

This type of bug is trivial for GPT to fix though. It was born for this. Sometimes it does generate real footguns but this sounds like an example from an earlier generation of generative AI.