Thanks for the thoughts on this. Ya, I am familiar with the technique of summarizing the chat history. It's on my todo list for aider. In the [2] link I includ

Thanks for the thoughts on this. Ya, I am familiar with the technique of summarizing the chat history. It's on my todo list for aider. In the [2] link I included above, I discuss the approach you suggest of summarizing the meat of most code. It didn't work well with gpt-3.5-turbo, but I do plan to revisit it again with gpt-4 at some point. Again, I haven't actually exhausted the context window often in my own use of aider. So it hasn't been a problem in practice. But no doubt it will be an issue for certain code bases and source files. I am quite interested in finding an effective solution, and plan to put in more effort here in the future.