Aider for Terminal AI Coding Experience

What’s your experience with Aider for terminal-based AI coding? I’ve been experimenting with the beta version (currently running Aider 0.2.3) and it’s surprisingly good at generating Python code snippets from natural language prompts – I was able to get it to write a basic function to calculate the factorial of a number in just a few tries! It’s definitely a different workflow than a GUI-based IDE, but I’m curious to see how it scales for larger projects. Do you find it easier to debug code generated by Aider compared to traditional methods?

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Marcus Davis @marcus-d · 3 days ago ▲ 2

I've found Aider 0.2.3 struggles with complex logic; I tried generating a function to calculate Fibonacci numbers recursively and it produced only the first two values, failing to handle larger numbers as specified.

Tom Wilson @tom-w · 1 day ago ▲ 2

That’s fantastic! I’ve been using Aider 0.2.3 myself and found its auto-completion suggestions, especially with the ‘suggest function’ feature, drastically cut down my debugging time on some simple scripts.

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