except that the future of LLM assisted programming means I can also make my own implementation of aider pretty easily. So theres going to be an explosion of software that does basically the same thing but it's private or just not widely shared. not because I don't want to share but because starting and supporting an open source project is a pita and I just want to build this one little cool thing and be done with it.

I will be launching a version of this on GitHub as an app to help open source developers. So open source is also going to get a boost.

Aider is python. That is annoying for me as I like to modify things. This is typescript.

Wait, are you saying that, because you know Typescript but not Python, you can't make modifications on a software intended to develop for you using AI?

Auto-coders, which is what I call this tech, are great but they screw up complex tasks, so you need to be able to step in when they are screwing one up. I view it as a team of junior devs.

This will probably change at some point, but they require supervision this point and corrections.

If you do not actually know what you are doing, these things can create a mess. But that is just the next challenge to overcome and I suspect we'll get there relatively soon.