Holy Grail: FREE Coding Assistant That Can Build From EXISTING CODE BASE

In this video, we review Aider, which is an AI coding assistant that can build entire codebases as well as iterate on existing code! Aider uses Universal CTags to map an existing codebase to provide all context to ChatGPT to help build on that codebase. It's truly amazing. I'll show you how to install and use it.

Enjoy :)

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[matthew_berman]

UPDATE: I forgot a step in the install process. After cloning the repo and creating/activating the conda env, you have to install Aider by using “pip install aider-chat” or “pip install -r requirements.txt”

[AlexGeo]

Matthew, I wanted to let you know that I, a complete n00b to programming managed to get this working, and have actually gone a few steps extra on the snake game you made and have something that’s actually a little fun to play…

I can’t tell you how grateful I am to the work you are doing, thanks and keep it going! You’re gonna help a lot of people get through these crazy times :)

[MattJonesYT]

The Ctags part was the most interesting part of this, I had never heard of it. That would be a great subject of its own video and compare it to fine tunings and embeddings

[Davorge]

this is truly amazing in so many levels! thanks for sharing, once gpt 4 16k is released the power of this tool will be enourmous! I've been in the waitlist for a while, hoping to get access soon!

[jimi]

Very exciting to help me finish some long standing "want to do" projects

[garyjurman]

Super freaking amazing. Got it up and running on my windows machine and also installed ctags. I told it about a pretty complicated program I have always wanted to write and it wrote the main file so we could iterate on it to get all the features right. Can't wait to bang on this for a few days.

[william]

I actually got bing chat to write snake, and change it to my liking. I did this by first giving me a list of things it needed to code, and then instructed it to execute the steps it gave me.

[teksatan]

I'll have to check this out, it looks interesting. Thanks for the info man!

[constantinegeist]

Feels like it's programming with extra steps. The effort you take to tell it what to do with many iterations could've been used on writing the code yourself.

[eck]

Dude, thank you for finding these projects, that's amazing! Love your channel. 💪

[AbdennacerAyeb]

Thank you for keeping us up to date with AI. You are awesome.

[iWhacko]

I came across the tool a week ago. Decided to try it out with a new project. Though I installed some frameworks first and allowed it to work with the existing project. In afew days I think I have done weeks of work.

[KSGUY]

This sounds amazing, I can't wait to try it out!

[aalaidi]

Great, I like your picks.
I'm working on code generation feature on my open source project, but without the need to see the code.
I think I'll benefit from aider project. Thanks.

[gregorymagnusson]

Very good summary of this new technology. Thanks for sharing.

[dtory]

You just gained a new subscriber. Always go straight to the point 😊

[goldengooseinvest]

Bro, You the man. Thanx for gathering all that info. help me out allot

[josh]

Great review of incredible software. Thank you for the consistent content.

[EngineerAAJ]

For those on windows 11, at least for me, instead of export use set

[anshgoestoschool]

This is really good, havent tried out the complex project feature but so far very promising.