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Re:CodeCompose: Meta’s AI Coding Assistant by anotherpaulg on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:52PM (#36178227)
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.

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Re:CodeCompose: Meta’s AI Coding Assistant by tyree731 on Saturday June 03, 2023 @07:49PM (#36181643)
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.
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Re:CodeCompose: Meta’s AI Coding Assistant by anotherpaulg on Saturday June 03, 2023 @08:58PM (#36181994)
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 the first step I made in this direction:

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

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