Hey HN, We are Sandeep and Naresh, the creators of Aide. We are happy to open source and invite the community to try out Aide which is a VSCode fork built with LLMs integrated.
To talk through the features, we engineered the following:
- A proactive agent
Agent which iterates on the linter errors (powered by the Language Server) and pulls in relevant context by doing go-to-definitions, go-to-references etc and propose fixes or ask for more files which might be missing in the context.
- Developer control
We encourage you to do edits on top of your coding sessions. To enable this, we built a VSCode native rollback feature which gets rid of all the edits made by the agent in a single click if there were mistakes, without messing up your changes from before.
- A combined chat+edit flow which you can use to brainstorm and edit
You can brainstorm a problem in chat by @’ting the files and then jump into edits (which can happen across multiple files) or go from a smaller set of edits and discuss the side-effects of it
- Inline editing widget
We took inspiration from the macos spotlight widget and created a similar one inside the editor, you can highlight part of the code, do Cmd+K and just give your instructions freely
- Local running AI brain
We ship a binary called sidecar which takes care of talking to the LLM providers, preparing the prompts and using the editor for the LLM. All of this is local first and you get full control over the prompts/responses without anything leaking to our end (unless you choose to use your subscription and share the data with us)
We spent the last 15 months learning about the internals of VSCode (its a non-trivial codebase) and also powering up our AI game, the framework is also at the top of swebench-lite with 43% score. On top of this, since the whole AI side of the logic runs locally on your machine you have complete control over the data, from the prompt to the responses and you can use your own API Keys as well (can be any LLM provider) and talk to them directly.
There’s still a whole lot to build and we are at 1% of the journey. Right now the editor feels robust and does not break on any of the flows which we aimed to solve for.
Let us know if there’s anything else you would like to see us build. We also want to empower extensibility and work together with the community to build the next set of features and set a new milestone of AI native editors.
bagelsan hour ago
What is the privacy policy? Do you get to see my code and secrets? Does anybody else? I don't want you to. Nothing personal.
skp1995opan hour ago
we don't .. in your user settings, type in disable all telemetry and we won't see a thing
mellosouls9 hours ago
skp1995op9 hours ago
you missed this one https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar Sidecar: The AI brains Aide: https://github.com/codestoryai/aide the editor
gman838 hours ago
Why is a fork required? I use the cline plugin for VS Code and it seems to be able to be able to more things, like update code directly, create new files, etc.
rco8786an hour ago
After using Cursor (another AI focused fork) I'm 100% on the fork train. AI built natively into the IDE presents another layer of speed and isn't subject to the limitations of the extension system (which is awesome in its own right, not a knock on it).
skp1995op8 hours ago
fork was necessary for the UX we wanted to go for. I do agree that an extension can also satisfy your needs (and it clearly is in your case)
Having a deeper integration with the editor allows for some really nice paradigms: - Rollbacks feel more native, in the sense that I do not loose my undo or redo stack - cmd+k is more in line with what you would expect with a floating widget for input instead of it being shown at the very top of your screen which is the case with any extension for now.
Going further, the changes which Microsoft are making to enable copilot editing features are only open to "copilot-chat" and no other extension (fair game for Microsoft IMHO) So keeping these things in mind, we designed the architecture in a way that we can go towards any interface (editor/extension). We did put energy into making this work deeply with the VSCode ecosystem of APIs and also added our own.
If the editor does not work to our benefit, we will take a call on moving to a different interface and thats where an extension or cloud based solution might also make sense
hubraumhugo8 hours ago
I'm curious - what does the AI coding setup of the HN community look like, and how has your experience been so far?
I want to get some broader feedback before completely switching my workflow to Aide or Cursor.
yen223an hour ago
I am on day 8 of Cursor's 14-day trial. If things continue to go well, I will be switching from Webstorm to Cursor for my Typescript projects.
The AI integrations are a huge productivity boost. There is a substantial difference in the quality of the AI suggestions between using Claude on the side, and having Claude be deeply integrated in the codebase.
I think I accepted about 60-70% of the suggestions Cursor provided.
Some highlights of Cursor:
- Wrote about 80% of a Vite plugin for consolidating articles in my blog (built on remix.run)
- Wrote a Github Action for automated deployments. Using Cursor to write automation scripts is a tangible productivity boost.
- Made meaningful alterations to a libpg_query fork that allowed it to be cross-compiled to iOS. I have very little experience with C compilation, it would have taken me a substantially long time to figure this out.
There are some downsides to using Cursor though:
- Cursor can get too eager with its suggestions, and I'm not seeing any easy way to temporarily or conditionally turn them off. This was especially bad when I was writing blog posts.
- Cursor does really well with Bash and Typescript, but does not work very well with Kotlin or Swift.
- This is a personal thing, but I'm still not used to some of the shortcuts that Cursor uses (Cursor is built on top of VSCode).
skp1995op27 minutes ago
Its great that cursor is working for you. I do think LLMs in general are far far better on Typescript and Python compared to other languages (reflects from the training data)
What features of cursor were the most compelling to you? I know their autocomplete experience is elite but wondering if there are other features which you use often!
yen22312 minutes ago
Their autocomplete experience is decent, but I've gotten the most value out of Cursor's "chat + codebase context" (no idea what it's called). The feature where you feed it the entire codebase as part of the context, and let Cursor suggest changes to any parts of the codebase.
adriandan hour ago
I tried Cursor and found it annoying. I don’t really like talking to AI in IDE chat windows. For whatever reason, I really prefer a web browser. I also didn’t like the overall experience.
I’m still using Copilot in VS Code every day. I recently switched from OpenAI to Claude for the browser-based chat stuff and I really like it. The UI for coding assistance in Claude is excellent. Very well thought out.
Claude also has a nice feature called Projects where you can upload a bunch of stuff to build context which is great - so for instance if you are doing an API integration you can dump all the API docs into the project and then every chat you have has that context available.
As with all the AI tools you have to be quite careful. I do find that errors slip into my code more easily when I am not writing it all myself. Reading (or worse, skimming) source code is just different than writing it. However, between type safety and unit testing, I find I get rid of the bugs pretty quickly and overall my productivity is multiples of what it was before.
thomasfromcdnjsan hour ago
This is me also, I don't like the UX/DX of Cursor and such just yet.
I can't tell if it is a UX thing or if it also doesn't suit my mental model.
I religiously use Copilot, and then paste stuff into Claude or ChatGPT (both pro) when needed.
KronisLV2 hours ago
GitHub Copilot in either VS Code or JetBrains IDEs. Having more or less the same experience across multiple tools is lovely and meets me where I am, instead of making me get a new tool.
The chat is okay, the autocomplete is also really pleasant for snippets and anything boilerplate heavy. The context awareness also helps. No advanced features like creating entirely new structures of files, though.
Of course, I’ll probably explore additional tools in the future, but for now LLMs are useful in my coding and also sometimes help me figure out what I should Google, because nowadays seemingly accurate search terms return trash.
skp1995op26 minutes ago
yeah I am also getting the sense that people want tooling which meets them in their preferred environment.
Do you use any of the AI features which go for editing multiple files or doing a lot more in the same instruction?
vbezhenaran hour ago
I'm using Copilot in VScode every day, it works fine, but I mostly use it as glorified one-line autocomplete. I almost never accept multi-line suggestions, don't even look at them.
I tried to use AI deeper, like using aider, but so far I just don't like it. I'm very sensitive to the tiny details of code and AI almost never got it right. I guess actually the main reason that I don't like AI is that I love to write code, simple as that. I don't want to automate that part of my work. I'm fine with trivial autocompletes, but I'm not fine with releasing control over the entire code.
What I would love is to automate interaction with other humans. I don't want to talk to colleagues, boss or other people. I want AI to do so and present me some short extracts.
skp1995op8 hours ago
I can give my broader feedback: - Codegen tools today are still not great: The lack of context and not using LSP really burns down the quality of the generated code. - Autocomplete is great Autocomplete is pretty nice, IMHO it helps finish your thoughts and code faster, its like intellisense but better.
If you are working on a greenfield project, AI codegen really shines today and there are many tools in the market for that.
With Aide, we wanted it to work for engineers who spend >= 6 months on the same project and there are deep dependencies between classes/files and the project overall.
For quick answers, I have a renewed habit of going to o1-preview or sonnet3.5 and then fact checking that with google (not been to stack overflow in a long while now)
Do give AI coding a chance, I think you will be excited to say the least for the coming future and develop habits on how to best use the tool.
SparkyMcUnicorn8 hours ago
> Codegen tools today are still not great: The lack of context and not using LSP really burns down the quality of the generated code
Have you tried Aider?
They've done some discovery on this subject, and it's currently using tree-sitter.
skp1995op8 hours ago
Yup, I have.
We also use tree-sitter for the smartness of understanding symbols https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/ba20fb3596c71186... and also the editor for talking to the Language Server.
What we found was that its not just about having access to these tools but to smartly perform the `go-to-definition` `go-to-reference` etc to grab the right context as and when required.
Every LLM call in between slows down the response time so there are a fair bit of heuristics which we use today to sidestep that process.
viraptor6 hours ago
Cursor works amazing day to day. Copilot is not even comparable there. I like but rarely use aider and plandex. I'd use them more if the interface didn't take me completely away from the ide. Currently they're closer to "work on this while I'm taking a break".
xpasky7 hours ago
Besides Claude.vim for "AI pair programming"? :) (tbh it works well only for small things)
I'm using Codeium and it's pretty decent at picking up the right context automatically, usually it autocompletes within ~100kLoC project quite flawlessly. (So far I haven't been using the chat much, just autocomplete.)
skp1995op7 hours ago
any reason you don't use the chat often, or maybe it's not your usecase?
Ancapistani2 hours ago
I'm not the parent poster, but in my case I very rarely use it because it's not in the Neovim UI; it opens in a browser.
I've also had some issues where it doesn't seem to work reliably, but that could be related to my setup.
skp1995opan hour ago
yeah I am learning that on neovim you can own a buffer region and instead use that for ai back and forth.. it's a very interesting space
tomr758 hours ago
cursor works well - uses RAG on your code to give context, can directly reference latest docs of whatever you're using
not perfect but good to incrementally build things/find bugs
arjunaaqa8 hours ago
Using cursor and it’s been great !
Founders care about development experience a lot and it shows.
Yet to try others, but already satisfied so not required.
nprateem8 hours ago
I tried GH copilot again recently with Claude. It was complete shit. Dog slow and gave incomplete responses. Back to aider.
skp1995op8 hours ago
what was so bad about it? genuinely curious cause they did make quite a bit of noise about the integration.
HyprMusican hour ago
It's not nearly as helpful as Claude.ai - it seems to only want to do the minimum required. On top of that it will quite regularly ignore what you've asked, give you back the exact code you gave it, or even generate syntactically invalid code.
It's amazing how much difference the prompt must make because using it is like going back to gpt3.5 yet it's the same model.
nprateem8 hours ago
It kept truncating files only about 600 lines long. It also seems to rewrite the entire file each time instead of just sending diffs like aider making it super slow.
skp1995op8 hours ago
oh, I see your point now. Its weird that they are not doing the search and replace style editing. Altho now that OpenAI also has Predicted Output, I think this will improve and it won't make mistakes while rewriting longer files.
The 600 line limit might be due to the output token limit on the LLM (not sure what they are using for the code rewriting)
nprateem6 hours ago
Yeah I guess it's a response limit. It makes it a deal breaker though.
james_marks9 hours ago
Looks interesting, is there a binary for Mac OS? I'd rather not build from scratch just to demo.
For the people comparing to Cursor on features, I suspect the winner is going to be hard to articulate in an A:B comparison.
There's such a difference in feel that may be rooted in a philosophy, but boils down to how much the creator's vision aligns with my own.
skp1995op9 hours ago
Yes there is, we have the binary link on our website but putting it here:
- arm64 build: https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/download/1....
- x86 build: https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/download/1....
> There's such a difference in feel that may be rooted in a philosophy, but boils down to how much the creator's vision aligns with my own.
Hard agree! I do think AI will find its way into our productivity tool kit in different ways. There are still so many ways we can go about doing this, A:B comparison aside I do feel the giving people to power to mold the tool to work for themselves is the right way.
rco87866 hours ago
Is there a comparison with Cursor I can read?
h1fra9 hours ago
Genuine question, with vscode going all-in in this direction, what's left for forks like this?
skp1995op9 hours ago
There are quite a few things! VSCode's direction (I am making my own assumptions from the learnings I have) - VSCode is working on the working set direction of making multi-file edits work - Their idea of bringing in other extension is via the provider API which only copilot has access to (so you can't use them if you are not a copilot subscriber)
So just taking these things for face value, I think there is lots to innovate. No editor (bias view of mine) has really captured the idea of a pair programmer working alongside you. Even now the most beloved feature is copilot or cursor tab with the inline completions.
So we are ways further from a saturated market or even a feature set level saturation. Until we get there, I do think forks have a way to work towards their own version of an ideal AI native editor, I do think the editors of the future will look different given the upwards trend of AI abilities.
arjunaaqa8 hours ago
Betting on Microsoft messing up on UX side, as always.
unshavedyak9 hours ago
Any tips for using Aide with another text editor? Ie i'm not going to work outside of my preferred text editor (Helix atm), so i'm curious about software which has a workflow around this. Rather than trying to move me to a new text editor
swlkr8 hours ago
I also use helix and i've been getting some mileage out of aider, the cli tool. Confusing name, as I don't believe aider is affiliated with aide
skp1995op5 hours ago
do you know of helix exposes the LSP APIs all the way to the editor .. if it does doing the integration should be trivial
swlkran hour ago
im fairly sure helix-gpt does this, though i haven't tried it
skp1995op19 minutes ago
reading the code for helix-gpt over here https://github.com/leona/helix-gpt/blob/2a047347968e63ca55e2... looks like the architecture for the extension is based around getting the diagnostic event and then passing that along to the chat.
The readme also talks about how LSP services are not exposed properly yet, my takeaway is that its not complete yet..but surely doable
skp1995op9 hours ago
hmm.... I do think it can be extended to work outside of just the VSCode environment.
If you look at the sidecar side of things: https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/ba20fb3596c71186... these are the main APIs we use
On the editor side: https://github.com/codestoryai/ide/blob/0eb311b7e4d7d63676ad...
These are the access points we need
The binary is fairly agnostic to the environment, so there is a possibility to make it work elsewhere. Its a bit non trivial but I would be happy to brainstorm and talk more about this
jamie_ca7 hours ago
FYI the youtube embed on https://docs.codestory.ai/features is broken (both Firefox and Chrome, MacOS).
https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/132.0.1/Darwin/en-US/x...
skp1995op7 hours ago
RIP, didn't expect that to happen. This is the embedded video btw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ZXMgnFSo8 putting it here for prosperity
morgante10 hours ago
Is the "sidecar" open source too?
ghostwriternr10 hours ago
Yes, it is! https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar
WillAdams9 hours ago
Confusingly, "Sidecar" is the name Apple uses for their feature of having an iPad serve as a second screen/touch interface for a Mac:
yjftsjthsd-h7 hours ago
It's also the name of a k8s thing: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-c...
skp1995op39 minutes ago
In my previous life at Facebook, I worked on the infra team and worked on a cluster manager similar to kubernetes, thats where I first heard the term sidecar. Something about the concept of a binary running alongside the pod powering other related things felt strong. In most parts this is the inspiration for naming the AI brain: sidecar
Validark8 hours ago
I believe I get the metaphor. Why is it confusing?
WillAdams8 hours ago
Overloading the term with a second technological meaning.
ilrwbwrkhv7 hours ago
So what? Just because Apple calls something retina "display" means that others cannot call stuff displays.
homarp3 hours ago
read it as sAIDEcar
pseudo_rand00010 hours ago
What differentiates Aide from all the existing tools in this space like Cursor?
skp1995op10 hours ago
VSCode forks are not new, there are many companies out there building towards this vision. What sets us apart is partly our philosophy (deeply integrating into the editor) and also the tech stack (running everything to the dot locally) and giving developers control over the LLM usage and also other niceness (like rollbacks which I think are paramount and important)
swyx9 hours ago
> What sets us apart is partly our philosophy (deeply integrating into the editor)
i'm so sorry but what do you think cursor's philosophy is
> also other niceness (like rollbacks
yep in cursor too
i know youre new so just being gentle but try to focus on some kind of killer feature (which i guess is sidecar?)
also https://x.com/codestoryai seems suspended fyi
skp1995op9 hours ago
Fair point! We are not taking a stab at cursor in any way (its a great product)
In terms of features I do believe we are differentiated enough, the workflows we came up with are different and we are all about giving back the data (prompt+responses) back to the user.
The sidecar is not the killer feature, its one of the many thing which ticks the whole experience together.
Good callout on the codestoryai account being suspended, we are at @aide_dev
swyx8 hours ago
you link to it still on your home page
skp1995op8 hours ago
great catch! Thank you for pointing this out
Alifatisk9 hours ago
> I'm so sorry but what do you think cursor's philosophy is
I've never understood why people say sorry for cases like these?
OsrsNeedsf2P9 hours ago
Aide seems to have a good open source license (Cursor is proprietary)
skp1995op9 hours ago
Open Source; giving full ownership of the data to the users; running completely locally; we want to make sure you can use Aide no matter the environment you are in.
SilentM688 hours ago
Hmm, any time frame for when Linux (.deb,flatpak) binaries will be available?
skp1995op8 hours ago
you should be able to use this: https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/download/1.... let me know if that does not work.
All our binaries are listed out here: https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/tag/1.94.2....
ghostwriternr8 hours ago
You could also use this script to setup everything: curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codestoryai/binaries/main/... | bash (you can see the source of the script too)
gitgud4 hours ago
This is a fork of VScode, which means people can’t use the extension store anymore right?
skp1995op3 hours ago
They can from the openvsx store https://open-vsx.org/
We also import your extensions automatically (safe guarding against the ones with Microsoft's licensed)
You can also just download in from the vscode marketplace webpage and drag and drop it in
drag0s9 hours ago
Looks like the download links from your landing page are broken?
Looks like our build pipeline is broken!
Click here to let us know?skp1995op9 hours ago
wooops... on it (we got rate limited by Github) in the meanwhile https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/tag/1.94.2.... check this out
skp1995op9 hours ago
its fixed!
CyberCatMeow7 hours ago
I see Qwen 2.5 is not listed on your website, is plugging in different llms supported as well?
skp1995op7 hours ago
Honestly we can, I haven't prompted it enough what do you want to use the model for?
CyberCatMeow6 hours ago
Just general coding, mostly python. Seems to me that Qwen 2.5, especially the upcoming bigger coder model might be the best performing coding model for 24GB VRAM setups
xpasky10 hours ago
Any short-term plans for Claude via AWS Bedrock? (That's for me personally a blocker for trying it on our main codebase.)
skp1995op10 hours ago
Thanks for your interest in Aide!
If I understood that correctly, it would mean supporting Claude via the AWS Bedrock endpoint, we will make that happen.
If the underlying LLM does not change then adding more connectors is pretty easy, I will ping the thread with updates on this.
xpasky9 hours ago
Yep! And AWS Bedrock gives you also plenty of other models on the back end, plus better control over rate limits. (But for us the important thing is data residency, the code isn't uploaded anywhere.)
Is it ~just about adding another file to https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/main/llm_client/... ?
I could take a look too - another way for me to test Aide by working with it to implement this. :-)
(https://github.com/pasky/claude.vim/blob/main/plugin/claude_... is sample code with basic wrapper emulating Claude streaming API with AWS Bedrock backend.)
skp1995op9 hours ago
yup! feel free to add the client support, you are on the right track with the changes.
To test the whole flow out here are a few things you will want to do: - https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/ba20fb3596c71186... (you need to create the LLMProperties object over here) - add support for it in the broker over here: https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/ba20fb3596c71186... - after this you should be at the very least able to test out Cmd+K (highlight and ask it to edit a section) - In Aide, if you go to User Settings: "aide self run" you can tick this and then run your local sidecar so you are hitting the right binary (kill the binary running on 42424 port, thats the webserver binary that ships along with the editor)
If all of this sounds like a lot, you can just add the client and I can also take care of the plumbing!
xpasky7 hours ago
Hmm looks like this is still pretty early project for me. :)
My experience: 1. I didn't have a working installation window after opening it for the first time. Maybe what fixed it was downloading and opening some random javascript repo, but maybe it was rather switching to "Trusted mode" (which makes me a bit nervous but ok).
2. Once the assistant window input became active, I wrote something short like "hi", but nothing happenned after pressing ctrl-Enter. I rageclicked around a bit, it's possible I have queued multiple requests. About 30 seconds later, suddenly I got a reply (something like "hi what do you want me to do"). That's .. not great latency. :)
3. Since I got it working, I opened the sidecar project and sent my second assistant prompt. I got back this response after few tens of seconds: "You have used up your 5 free requests. Please log in for unlimited requests." (Idk what these 5 requests were...)
I gave it one more go by creating an account. However after logging in through the browser popup, "Signing in to CodeStory..." spins for a long time, then disappears but AIDE still isn't logged in. (Even after trying again after a restart.)
One more thought is maybe you got DDos'd by HN?
skp1995op7 hours ago
> 2. Once the assistant window input became active, I wrote something short like "hi", but nothing happenned after pressing ctrl-Enter. I rageclicked around a bit, it's possible I have queued multiple requests. About 30 seconds later, suddenly I got a reply (something like "hi what do you want me to do"). That's .. not great latency. :)
Yup thats cause of the traffic and the LLM rate limits :( we are getting more TPM right now so the latency spikes should go away, I had half a mind to spin up multiple accounts to get higher TPM but oh well.... if you do end up using your own API Key, then there is no latency at all, right now the requests get pulled in a global queue so thats probably whats happening.
> 3. Since I got it working, I opened the sidecar project and sent my second assistant prompt. I got back this response after few tens of seconds: "You have used up your 5 free requests. Please log in for unlimited requests." (Idk what these 5 requests were...)
The auth flow being wonky is on us, we did fuzzy test it a bit but as with any software it slipped from the cracks. We were even wondering to skip the auth completely if you are using your own API Keys, that way there is 0 touch interaction with our llm proxy infra.
Thanks for the feedback tho, I appreciate it and we will do better
Alifatisk9 hours ago
Aide.dev is similar to aider.chat except Aide being an IDE while Aider is a CLI
skp1995op9 hours ago
AIDE == AI + IDE (that was our take on the name)
ilrwbwrkhv6 hours ago
This is very similar to the Zed editor. How much did you get inspired by them? And what are the differences between yours and their implementations?
skp1995op6 hours ago
I would take that as a compliment, big fan of Zed (I hope their extension ecosystem allows for us to plugin sidecar into Zed soon)
Tbh I did try out their implementation and it still feels early, one of the key difference we went for was to allow the user to move freely between chat and editing mode.
ilrwbwrkhv2 hours ago
There's feels much more detailed and thoughtful than yours.
Yours for example doesn't allow one to insert diagnostics or allow for example for things like inserting all tabs open and all files open at once.
They also allow jumping from editing to chatting mode by simply doing command enter.
skp1995op15 minutes ago
hmmm you are right, the ergonomics of providing context are more powerful in zed. Feedback taken, we will work on it.
We implicitly take in all the diagnostics on the files https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/e5408782a3bfa461...
jwilber7 hours ago
This looks great. Would love some blog posts about your experience building this our with rust!
skp1995op7 hours ago
Oh for sure! I do want to talk about how rust really helped us so many times when doing refactors or building new features, part of the reason why we were able to iterate so quickly on the AI side of things and ship features
DrBenCarson8 hours ago
sigh more Electron
skp1995op8 hours ago
I know... we could have built something free form ground up (like zed did) but we had to pick a battle between building a new editor from the grounds up or building from a solid foundation (VSCode) We are a small team right now (4 of us) and have been users of VSCode, so instead of building something new, putting energy into building from VSCode made a lot more sense to us.
nsonha5 hours ago
first editor I've seen recently that defaults to turn of minimap.
I won't shut up for about this, I don't understand how such an useless "feature" becomes the norm in modern IDEs.
renewiltord9 hours ago
You have just woken up from the cryosleep you entered in 2024. The year is 2237. GPT-64 and its predecessors have been around for nigh on 100 years. But there has been no civilizational upheaval. Your confusion is cleared when you check the inter-agent high-speed data bus. You expect this to be utterly incomprehensible, but both the human and AI data is clearly visible. It is a repeating pattern. The agents are mimicking human behavior perfectly and you can’t tell which is which. All data transmitted has the same form:
$word is already a name for a project. Stop copying it. Change your name.
__MatrixMan__8 hours ago
I don't think it's going to take us 200 years to kick the habit of using global namespaces for friendly names, maybe 80. Recognizing a name and rendering it as a disambiguation based on my location in the trust graph should be a feature of the text box, not something that I have to think about.
DesiLurker5 hours ago
sounds like the scene in movie Idiocracy where roomba is stuck in corner and keeps repeating 'floor is now clean'.
skp1995op9 hours ago
hahaha
solarkraft9 hours ago
Not only is the name Aide already used by another project, it’s even also an IDE.
skp1995op9 hours ago
TIL, I thought we covered the ground when grepping for Aide. Funny that its also an editor
memsom9 hours ago
It is a pretty well established IDE. I used it back on a Nexus 4 when that phone was actually "recent" to give you some context.
skp1995op8 hours ago
I do remember the Nexus 4 (jelly bean OS). I was fascinated at the time that you could play games on Android and ran the emulator for android on my desktop at that point (I was young and needed the games haha)
fermigier9 hours ago
AIDE has been around for 25 years: https://aide.github.io/
IMHO the right thing would be to use another name.
skp1995op9 hours ago
I ... did not know that.
We should probably pick another name then
handfuloflight9 hours ago
There's also https://aider.chat/, which is... close.
MyFedora4 hours ago
This is literally a totally different piece of software with a completely unrelated use case. Changing the name would make as much sense as renaming a hammer because someone invented a screwdriver.
lioeters9 hours ago
The name is perfect, AI + IDE = Aide. You should keep it.
dsabanin9 hours ago
You probably shouldn’t.
T3RMINATED7 hours ago
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