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Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE

253 points by skp1995 2y ago

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.

morgante 2y ago
Is the "sidecar" open source too?
- ghostwriternr 2y ago
  Yes, it is! https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar
  - WillAdams 2y 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: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102597 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102597
    - Validark 2y ago
      I believe I get the metaphor. Why is it confusing?
      - WillAdams 2y ago
        Overloading the term with a second technological meaning.
        scubbo 2y ago
        Unfortunately, there are a distinctly limited number of words that can communicate a particular concept - the pigeon-hole principle suggests duplication will be inevitable. Ambiguity's only really a problem when the same term is used multiple ways in similar contexts. I think it's very unlikely that anyone will get confused between these two usages.
    - yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
      It's also the name of a k8s thing: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-containers/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-c...
      - skp1995 2y ago
pseudo_rand000 2y ago
What differentiates Aide from all the existing tools in this space like Cursor?
- skp1995 2y 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)
  - swyx 2y 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 https://x.com/codestoryai seems suspended fyi
    - Alifatisk 2y 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?
      - aniviacat 2y ago
        Because without the sorry the comment may be interpreted in an aggressive/dismissive tone. For this issue, adding a sorry is an easy fix.
      - scubbo 2y ago
        Can be a cultural idiomatic thing. For me (BrEng) "I'm sorry but..." doesn't explicitly mean "I regret/apologise for what I'm about to say" - in fact it's an intensifier.
xpasky 2y ago
Any short-term plans for Claude via AWS Bedrock? (That's for me personally a blocker for trying it on our main codebase.)
- skp1995 2y 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.
  - xpasky 2y 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/src/clients/ 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_bedrock_helper.py https://github.com/pasky/claude.vim/blob/main/plugin/claude_... is sample code with basic wrapper emulating Claude streaming API with AWS Bedrock backend.)
    - skp1995 2y 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/ba20fb3596c711860ba24cbed8fb05b5dddc25c8/sidecar/src/agentic/tool/code_edit/search_and_replace.rs#L629-L630 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/ba20fb3596c711860ba24cbed8fb05b5dddc25c8/llm_client/src/broker.rs#L52-L90 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!
solarkraft 2y ago
Not only is the name Aide already used by another project, it’s even also an IDE. https://www.android-ide.com/ https://www.android-ide.com/
- Mashimo 2y ago
  Looks rather dead.
- skp1995 2y ago
  TIL, I thought we covered the ground when grepping for Aide. Funny that its also an editor
  - memsom 2y 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.
    - skp1995 2y 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)
fermigier 2y ago
AIDE has been around for 25 years: https://aide.github.io/ https://aide.github.io/ IMHO the right thing would be to use another name.
- skp1995 2y ago
  I ... did not know that. We should probably pick another name then
  - dsabanin 2y ago
    You probably shouldn’t.
  - lioeters 2y ago
    The name is perfect, AI + IDE = Aide. You should keep it.
    - pabs3 2y ago
      Maybe add a hyphen; ai-ide
  - handfuloflight 2y ago
    There's also https://aider.chat/ https://aider.chat/, which is... close.
  - MyFedora 2y 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.
mellosouls 2y ago
Links to the project, I'm guessing these :) https://github.com/codestoryai/aide https://github.com/codestoryai/aide https://aide.dev/ https://aide.dev/
- skp1995 2y ago
  you missed this one https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar Sidecar: The AI brains Aide: https://github.com/codestoryai/aide https://github.com/codestoryai/aide the editor
unshavedyak 2y 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
- skp1995 2y 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/ba20fb3596c711860ba24cbed8fb05b5dddc25c8/sidecar/src/bin/webserver.rs#L229-L304 https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/ba20fb3596c71186... these are the main APIs we use On the editor side: https://github.com/codestoryai/ide/blob/0eb311b7e4d7d63676adda50b70659e0587ea902/extensions/codestory/src/server/requestHandler.ts#L38-L261 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
- swlkr 2y 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
  - skp1995 2y 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
    - swlkr 2y ago
      im fairly sure helix-gpt does this, though i haven't tried it
      - skp1995 2y ago
        reading the code for helix-gpt over here https://github.com/leona/helix-gpt/blob/2a047347968e63ca55e2bf0db74e80130941f1f8/src/models/lsp.ts#L137-L164 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
drag0s 2y 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?
- skp1995 2y ago
  wooops... on it (we got rate limited by Github) in the meanwhile https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/tag/1.94.2.24311 https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/tag/1.94.2.... check this out
  - skp1995 2y ago
    its fixed!
renewiltord 2y 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. Mankind and His Machine Children have met The Great Filter.
- skp1995 2y ago
  hahaha
- __MatrixMan__ 2y 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.
- DesiLurker 2y ago
  sounds like the scene in movie Idiocracy where roomba is stuck in corner and keeps repeating 'floor is now clean'.
Alifatisk 2y ago
Aide.dev is similar to aider.chat except Aide being an IDE while Aider is a CLI
- skp1995 2y ago
  AIDE == AI + IDE (that was our take on the name)
  - Alifatisk 2y ago
    Ohhh
james_marks 2y 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.
- skp1995 2y 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/1.94.2.24311/Aide.arm64.1.94.2.24311.dmg https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/download/1.... - x86 build: https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/download/1.94.2.24311/Aide.x64.1.94.2.24311.dmg 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.
h1fra 2y ago
Genuine question, with vscode going all-in in this direction, what's left for forks like this?
- skp1995 2y 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.
  - rubslopes 2y ago
    > No editor (bias view of mine) has really captured the idea of a pair programmer working alongside you. I had this feeling for the first time with Cline. It adjusted the code, accessed the terminal, rebuilt the image, ran the container, saw an error, suggested new edits, ran again... All while only asking for a few confirmations. And it's very verbose: it tells you with details what it's doing every step of the way. But I migrated to the new Copilot a few days ago because I was easily spending $5 in a day.
- arjunaaqa 2y ago
  Betting on Microsoft messing up on UX side, as always.
hubraumhugo 2y 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.
- arjunaaqa 2y 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.
- skp1995 2y 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.
  - SparkyMcUnicorn 2y 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.
    - skp1995 2y ago
      Yup, I have. We also use tree-sitter for the smartness of understanding symbols https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/ba20fb3596c711860ba24cbed8fb05b5dddc25c8/sidecar/src/chunking/rust.rs 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.
gman83 2y 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.
- skp1995 2y 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
- rco8786 2y 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).
  - jaylane 2y ago
    I was on the fork train for awhile but cursors keeps having weird issues with indexing, intellisense, not being able to save files when format on save is enabled I wound up going back to vscode with cline and use openrouter to save money via prompt caching. To my knowledge cursor doesn't have Claude sonnets computer use enabled yet which is a total game changer and cline does I'll check back in a few months but instead of paying 20 a month for cursor pro I can put 20 in credits in openrouter and fully leverage the latest Claude model and features
SilentM68 2y ago
Hmm, any time frame for when Linux (.deb,flatpak) binaries will be available?
- skp1995 2y ago
  you should be able to use this: https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/download/1.94.2.24311/aide_1.94.2.24311_amd64.deb 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/1.94.2.24311 https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/tag/1.94.2....
  - ghostwriternr 2y ago
    You could also use this script to setup everything: curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codestoryai/binaries/main/linux/linux_install.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codestoryai/binaries/main/... | bash (you can see the source of the script too)
  - SilentM68 2y ago
    I was able to successfully install the appimage. Perhaps it was just me but I did not find it as easy to work with as I imagined. Better, easier to follow, tutorials with images might help. I was hoping, for example, to highlite code and have Aide just intuitively injest that piece of code and work with it, but the process is not that easy, however. It's probably me but at least I was able to get it to install :)
DrBenCarson 2y ago
sigh more Electron
- skp1995 2y 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.
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jamie_ca 2y ago
FYI the youtube embed on https://docs.codestory.ai/features https://docs.codestory.ai/features is broken (both Firefox and Chrome, MacOS). https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/132.0.1/Darwin/en-US/xframe-neterror-page https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/132.0.1/Darwin/en-US/x...
- skp1995 2y ago
  RIP, didn't expect that to happen. This is the embedded video btw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ZXMgnFSo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ZXMgnFSo8 putting it here for prosperity
  - random42 2y ago
    You mean "posterity", not "prosperity" :)
CyberCatMeow 2y ago
I see Qwen 2.5 is not listed on your website, is plugging in different llms supported as well?
- skp1995 2y ago
  Honestly we can, I haven't prompted it enough what do you want to use the model for?
  - CyberCatMeow 2y 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
jwilber 2y ago
This looks great. Would love some blog posts about your experience building this our with rust!
- skp1995 2y 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
ilrwbwrkhv 2y 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?
- skp1995 2y 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.
  - ilrwbwrkhv 2y 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.
    - skp1995 2y 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/e5408782a3bfa461d2fc26a3c1892e5258746217/sidecar/src/agentic/tool/code_edit/search_and_replace.rs#L446-L451 https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/e5408782a3bfa461...
rco8786 2y ago
Is there a comparison with Cursor I can read?
nsonha 2y 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.
gitgud 2y ago
This is a fork of VScode, which means people can’t use the extension store anymore right?
- skp1995 2y ago
  They can from the openvsx store https://open-vsx.org/ 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
bagels 2y 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.
- skp1995 2y ago
  we don't .. in your user settings, type in disable all telemetry and we won't see a thing
  - edf13 2y ago
    What telemetry are you sending without this setting?
    - skp1995 2y ago
      nothing https://github.com/codestoryai/ide/blob/0eb311b7e4d7d63676adda50b70659e0587ea902/extensions/codestory/src/posthog/client.ts#L5-L25 https://github.com/codestoryai/ide/blob/0eb311b7e4d7d63676ad... we get back an undefined PosthogClient instead of populating it
PittleyDunkin 2y ago
In a world that prioritizes precise user control over the output text, how do you justify the value of relinquishing such control even to provide actions the user would have made already? It only takes a single bad edit to make the user lose all trust.
- skp1995 2y ago
  yeah bad edits are especially worse when we keep building on top of it. Our first take on solving this is with rollbacks .. which allows you to delete edits up until a point in the conversation.. so if you do notice a bad edit you can do that. after this, there is the proactive agent ..which checks it's work again and suggests more changes which it needs to do .. you can give feedback and guide it. With llms we do loose a bit of control but I think the editor should work to solve this
  - PittleyDunkin 2y ago
    I appreciate the earnest replies; these do in fact address my concerns.
sagarpatil 2y ago
Been using Cursor since launch. Really frustrating how they charge per message (500/mo) instead of by token usage. Like, why should a one-line code suggestion cost the same as refactoring an entire class? Plus it's been losing context lately and making rookie mistakes. Tried Zed AI but couldn't get into it - just doesn't feel as smooth as Cursor used to. GitHub Copilot is even worse. Feels like they're so obsessed with keeping that $10/month price point that they've gutted everything. Context window is tiny and the responses are barebones.
- DeathArrow 2y ago
  You can try Cline and Aider.
- tekacs 2y ago
  I used Cursor for many months, but found that I couldn't deal with how slow and workflow-interrupting VSCode feels, so I went back to Zed. I tried out and abandoned Zed AI, but I've found that Zed + aider is a really excellent setup – for me, at least. For smaller things, Zed's inline Copilot setup works (nowadays) just as well as Cursor's and for things that are even a little bigger than tiny, I pull up aider and prompt the change the exact same way that I did with Cursor's Composer before. I'm an odd choice because I'm a pretty expert-level programmer, but I find that aider with o1 is helpful for things hairy, expansive and tedious things that would otherwise irritate.
- deleted 2y ago
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nobody9999 2y ago
Just an FYI, there is extant code called Aide[0][1] (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) as well that's under active development/maintenance. Since they perform vastly different functions (the above is a replacement for tripwire[2]), it's unlikely anyone will be confused, but be aware that it exists. There's always someone who will mistake one for the other. [0] https://aide.github.io/ https://aide.github.io/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Intrusion_Detection_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Intrusion_Detection_E... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Tripwire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Tripwire
hackermanai 2y ago
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DeathArrow 2y ago
If it's a fork of VS code it should be trivial to also support Linux and Windows. Why is it MacOs only?
- skp1995 2y ago
  It supports all platforms, we took inspiration from the macos spotlight search widget for inline editing.
  - santiagobasulto 2y ago
    I think it's confusing for people that only one big green button shows "Download for mac" and the other download links are at the footer.
    - skp1995 2y ago
      ugh.. in which case our platform detection code is not working as expected. We will look into that
- santiagobasulto 2y ago
  There are download links for other platforms at the footer, and below the main CTA button says "Looking for other platforms?" which takes you there.
jadbox 2y ago
I'd much, much prefer Aide to continue as a CLI tool or as a VSCode plugin. Every fork of VSCode ends up with IDE maintenance bugs that never get addressed and slowly the effort implodes as the bug surface becomes too wide. Do you want to spend 90% of your time on AI or troubleshooting odd Linux VSCode bugs in your fork? I'd highly recommend the team to evaluate a different direction for growth to maximize sustainable future growth.
- skp1995 2y ago
  Thats a fair point, a significant part of our 4 person team had to skill up on the VSCode codebase to be able to meaningfully make changes to it. I would love to know your workflow, you mention CLI tool or VSCode plugin, which one of them work for you? Whats missing from them where Aide can fill in the gap
  - portpecos 2y ago
    Plugin, which gives you access to the UI.
  - tertle950 2y ago
    Make a plugin that interfaces with a CLI tool! Best of both worlds, I think!
wg0 2y ago
Is this "VC less" AI IDE?
nullspace 2y ago
I have just downloaded and set it up to talk to Anthropic. I have some unused API credits that I've been trying to find a use for. Haha. To be honest, I was very confused by the the @'ing. Is it possible to always pin the current open file to the context, perhaps in a FIFO fashion? (Other than the manually pinned files). The UX around pinning / @'ing is not super clear to me. Otherwise still getting the hang of it, and generally pretty neat.
- skp1995 2y ago
  There is pinned context on the very top where you can pin the files which you frequently use. We will start including the open file by default in the context very soon (one of the gotchas here, is that the open file could not be related to the question you have)

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morgante 2y ago

Is the "sidecar" open source too?

ghostwriternr 2y ago
Yes, it is! https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar
- WillAdams 2y 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: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102597 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102597
  - Validark 2y ago
    I believe I get the metaphor. Why is it confusing?
    - WillAdams 2y ago
      Overloading the term with a second technological meaning.
      - scubbo 2y ago
        Unfortunately, there are a distinctly limited number of words that can communicate a particular concept - the pigeon-hole principle suggests duplication will be inevitable. Ambiguity's only really a problem when the same term is used multiple ways in similar contexts. I think it's very unlikely that anyone will get confused between these two usages.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
    It's also the name of a k8s thing: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-containers/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/sidecar-c...
    - skp1995 2y ago

pseudo_rand000 2y ago

What differentiates Aide from all the existing tools in this space like Cursor?

skp1995 2y 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)
- swyx 2y 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 https://x.com/codestoryai seems suspended fyi
  - Alifatisk 2y 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?
    - aniviacat 2y ago
      Because without the sorry the comment may be interpreted in an aggressive/dismissive tone. For this issue, adding a sorry is an easy fix.
    - scubbo 2y ago
      Can be a cultural idiomatic thing. For me (BrEng) "I'm sorry but..." doesn't explicitly mean "I regret/apologise for what I'm about to say" - in fact it's an intensifier.

xpasky 2y ago

Any short-term plans for Claude via AWS Bedrock? (That's for me personally a blocker for trying it on our main codebase.)

skp1995 2y 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.
- xpasky 2y 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/src/clients/ 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_bedrock_helper.py https://github.com/pasky/claude.vim/blob/main/plugin/claude_... is sample code with basic wrapper emulating Claude streaming API with AWS Bedrock backend.)
  - skp1995 2y 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/ba20fb3596c711860ba24cbed8fb05b5dddc25c8/sidecar/src/agentic/tool/code_edit/search_and_replace.rs#L629-L630 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/ba20fb3596c711860ba24cbed8fb05b5dddc25c8/llm_client/src/broker.rs#L52-L90 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!

solarkraft 2y ago

Not only is the name Aide already used by another project, it’s even also an IDE. https://www.android-ide.com/ https://www.android-ide.com/

Mashimo 2y ago
Looks rather dead.
skp1995 2y ago
TIL, I thought we covered the ground when grepping for Aide. Funny that its also an editor
- memsom 2y 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.
  - skp1995 2y 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)

fermigier 2y ago

AIDE has been around for 25 years: https://aide.github.io/ https://aide.github.io/ IMHO the right thing would be to use another name.

skp1995 2y ago
I ... did not know that. We should probably pick another name then
- dsabanin 2y ago
  You probably shouldn’t.
- lioeters 2y ago
  The name is perfect, AI + IDE = Aide. You should keep it.
  - pabs3 2y ago
    Maybe add a hyphen; ai-ide
- handfuloflight 2y ago
  There's also https://aider.chat/ https://aider.chat/, which is... close.
- MyFedora 2y 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.

mellosouls 2y ago

Links to the project, I'm guessing these :) https://github.com/codestoryai/aide https://github.com/codestoryai/aide https://aide.dev/ https://aide.dev/

skp1995 2y ago
you missed this one https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar Sidecar: The AI brains Aide: https://github.com/codestoryai/aide https://github.com/codestoryai/aide the editor

unshavedyak 2y 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

skp1995 2y 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/ba20fb3596c711860ba24cbed8fb05b5dddc25c8/sidecar/src/bin/webserver.rs#L229-L304 https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/ba20fb3596c71186... these are the main APIs we use On the editor side: https://github.com/codestoryai/ide/blob/0eb311b7e4d7d63676adda50b70659e0587ea902/extensions/codestory/src/server/requestHandler.ts#L38-L261 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
swlkr 2y 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
- skp1995 2y 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
  - swlkr 2y ago
    im fairly sure helix-gpt does this, though i haven't tried it
    - skp1995 2y ago
      reading the code for helix-gpt over here https://github.com/leona/helix-gpt/blob/2a047347968e63ca55e2bf0db74e80130941f1f8/src/models/lsp.ts#L137-L164 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

drag0s 2y 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?

skp1995 2y ago
wooops... on it (we got rate limited by Github) in the meanwhile https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/tag/1.94.2.24311 https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/tag/1.94.2.... check this out
- skp1995 2y ago
  its fixed!

renewiltord 2y 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. Mankind and His Machine Children have met The Great Filter.

skp1995 2y ago
hahaha
__MatrixMan__ 2y 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.
DesiLurker 2y ago
sounds like the scene in movie Idiocracy where roomba is stuck in corner and keeps repeating 'floor is now clean'.

Alifatisk 2y ago

Aide.dev is similar to aider.chat except Aide being an IDE while Aider is a CLI

skp1995 2y ago
AIDE == AI + IDE (that was our take on the name)
- Alifatisk 2y ago
  Ohhh

james_marks 2y 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.

skp1995 2y 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/1.94.2.24311/Aide.arm64.1.94.2.24311.dmg https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/download/1.... - x86 build: https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/download/1.94.2.24311/Aide.x64.1.94.2.24311.dmg 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.

h1fra 2y ago

Genuine question, with vscode going all-in in this direction, what's left for forks like this?

skp1995 2y 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.
- rubslopes 2y ago
  > No editor (bias view of mine) has really captured the idea of a pair programmer working alongside you. I had this feeling for the first time with Cline. It adjusted the code, accessed the terminal, rebuilt the image, ran the container, saw an error, suggested new edits, ran again... All while only asking for a few confirmations. And it's very verbose: it tells you with details what it's doing every step of the way. But I migrated to the new Copilot a few days ago because I was easily spending $5 in a day.
arjunaaqa 2y ago
Betting on Microsoft messing up on UX side, as always.

hubraumhugo 2y 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.

arjunaaqa 2y 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.
skp1995 2y 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.
- SparkyMcUnicorn 2y 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.
  - skp1995 2y ago
    Yup, I have. We also use tree-sitter for the smartness of understanding symbols https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/ba20fb3596c711860ba24cbed8fb05b5dddc25c8/sidecar/src/chunking/rust.rs 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.

gman83 2y 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.

skp1995 2y 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
rco8786 2y 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).
- jaylane 2y ago
  I was on the fork train for awhile but cursors keeps having weird issues with indexing, intellisense, not being able to save files when format on save is enabled I wound up going back to vscode with cline and use openrouter to save money via prompt caching. To my knowledge cursor doesn't have Claude sonnets computer use enabled yet which is a total game changer and cline does I'll check back in a few months but instead of paying 20 a month for cursor pro I can put 20 in credits in openrouter and fully leverage the latest Claude model and features

SilentM68 2y ago

Hmm, any time frame for when Linux (.deb,flatpak) binaries will be available?

skp1995 2y ago
you should be able to use this: https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/download/1.94.2.24311/aide_1.94.2.24311_amd64.deb 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/1.94.2.24311 https://github.com/codestoryai/binaries/releases/tag/1.94.2....
- ghostwriternr 2y ago
  You could also use this script to setup everything: curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codestoryai/binaries/main/linux/linux_install.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codestoryai/binaries/main/... | bash (you can see the source of the script too)
- SilentM68 2y ago
  I was able to successfully install the appimage. Perhaps it was just me but I did not find it as easy to work with as I imagined. Better, easier to follow, tutorials with images might help. I was hoping, for example, to highlite code and have Aide just intuitively injest that piece of code and work with it, but the process is not that easy, however. It's probably me but at least I was able to get it to install :)

DrBenCarson 2y ago

sigh more Electron

skp1995 2y 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.

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jamie_ca 2y ago

FYI the youtube embed on https://docs.codestory.ai/features https://docs.codestory.ai/features is broken (both Firefox and Chrome, MacOS). https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/132.0.1/Darwin/en-US/xframe-neterror-page https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/132.0.1/Darwin/en-US/x...

skp1995 2y ago
RIP, didn't expect that to happen. This is the embedded video btw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ZXMgnFSo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8ZXMgnFSo8 putting it here for prosperity
- random42 2y ago
  You mean "posterity", not "prosperity" :)

CyberCatMeow 2y ago

I see Qwen 2.5 is not listed on your website, is plugging in different llms supported as well?

skp1995 2y ago
Honestly we can, I haven't prompted it enough what do you want to use the model for?
- CyberCatMeow 2y 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

jwilber 2y ago

This looks great. Would love some blog posts about your experience building this our with rust!

skp1995 2y 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

ilrwbwrkhv 2y 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?

skp1995 2y 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.
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y 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.
  - skp1995 2y 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/e5408782a3bfa461d2fc26a3c1892e5258746217/sidecar/src/agentic/tool/code_edit/search_and_replace.rs#L446-L451 https://github.com/codestoryai/sidecar/blob/e5408782a3bfa461...

rco8786 2y ago

Is there a comparison with Cursor I can read?

nsonha 2y 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.

gitgud 2y ago

This is a fork of VScode, which means people can’t use the extension store anymore right?

skp1995 2y ago
They can from the openvsx store https://open-vsx.org/ 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

bagels 2y 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.

skp1995 2y ago
we don't .. in your user settings, type in disable all telemetry and we won't see a thing
- edf13 2y ago
  What telemetry are you sending without this setting?
  - skp1995 2y ago
    nothing https://github.com/codestoryai/ide/blob/0eb311b7e4d7d63676adda50b70659e0587ea902/extensions/codestory/src/posthog/client.ts#L5-L25 https://github.com/codestoryai/ide/blob/0eb311b7e4d7d63676ad... we get back an undefined PosthogClient instead of populating it

PittleyDunkin 2y ago

In a world that prioritizes precise user control over the output text, how do you justify the value of relinquishing such control even to provide actions the user would have made already? It only takes a single bad edit to make the user lose all trust.

skp1995 2y ago
yeah bad edits are especially worse when we keep building on top of it. Our first take on solving this is with rollbacks .. which allows you to delete edits up until a point in the conversation.. so if you do notice a bad edit you can do that. after this, there is the proactive agent ..which checks it's work again and suggests more changes which it needs to do .. you can give feedback and guide it. With llms we do loose a bit of control but I think the editor should work to solve this
- PittleyDunkin 2y ago
  I appreciate the earnest replies; these do in fact address my concerns.

sagarpatil 2y ago

Been using Cursor since launch. Really frustrating how they charge per message (500/mo) instead of by token usage. Like, why should a one-line code suggestion cost the same as refactoring an entire class? Plus it's been losing context lately and making rookie mistakes. Tried Zed AI but couldn't get into it - just doesn't feel as smooth as Cursor used to. GitHub Copilot is even worse. Feels like they're so obsessed with keeping that $10/month price point that they've gutted everything. Context window is tiny and the responses are barebones.

DeathArrow 2y ago
You can try Cline and Aider.
tekacs 2y ago
I used Cursor for many months, but found that I couldn't deal with how slow and workflow-interrupting VSCode feels, so I went back to Zed. I tried out and abandoned Zed AI, but I've found that Zed + aider is a really excellent setup – for me, at least. For smaller things, Zed's inline Copilot setup works (nowadays) just as well as Cursor's and for things that are even a little bigger than tiny, I pull up aider and prompt the change the exact same way that I did with Cursor's Composer before. I'm an odd choice because I'm a pretty expert-level programmer, but I find that aider with o1 is helpful for things hairy, expansive and tedious things that would otherwise irritate.
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nobody9999 2y ago

Just an FYI, there is extant code called Aide[0][1] (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) as well that's under active development/maintenance. Since they perform vastly different functions (the above is a replacement for tripwire[2]), it's unlikely anyone will be confused, but be aware that it exists. There's always someone who will mistake one for the other. [0] https://aide.github.io/ https://aide.github.io/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Intrusion_Detection_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Intrusion_Detection_E... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Tripwire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Tripwire

hackermanai 2y ago

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DeathArrow 2y ago

If it's a fork of VS code it should be trivial to also support Linux and Windows. Why is it MacOs only?

skp1995 2y ago
It supports all platforms, we took inspiration from the macos spotlight search widget for inline editing.
- santiagobasulto 2y ago
  I think it's confusing for people that only one big green button shows "Download for mac" and the other download links are at the footer.
  - skp1995 2y ago
    ugh.. in which case our platform detection code is not working as expected. We will look into that
santiagobasulto 2y ago
There are download links for other platforms at the footer, and below the main CTA button says "Looking for other platforms?" which takes you there.

jadbox 2y ago

I'd much, much prefer Aide to continue as a CLI tool or as a VSCode plugin. Every fork of VSCode ends up with IDE maintenance bugs that never get addressed and slowly the effort implodes as the bug surface becomes too wide. Do you want to spend 90% of your time on AI or troubleshooting odd Linux VSCode bugs in your fork? I'd highly recommend the team to evaluate a different direction for growth to maximize sustainable future growth.

skp1995 2y ago
Thats a fair point, a significant part of our 4 person team had to skill up on the VSCode codebase to be able to meaningfully make changes to it. I would love to know your workflow, you mention CLI tool or VSCode plugin, which one of them work for you? Whats missing from them where Aide can fill in the gap
- portpecos 2y ago
  Plugin, which gives you access to the UI.
- tertle950 2y ago
  Make a plugin that interfaces with a CLI tool! Best of both worlds, I think!

wg0 2y ago

Is this "VC less" AI IDE?

nullspace 2y ago

I have just downloaded and set it up to talk to Anthropic. I have some unused API credits that I've been trying to find a use for. Haha. To be honest, I was very confused by the the @'ing. Is it possible to always pin the current open file to the context, perhaps in a FIFO fashion? (Other than the manually pinned files). The UX around pinning / @'ing is not super clear to me. Otherwise still getting the hang of it, and generally pretty neat.

skp1995 2y ago
There is pinned context on the very top where you can pin the files which you frequently use. We will start including the open file by default in the context very soon (one of the gotchas here, is that the open file could not be related to the question you have)