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Part of the skill in using these tools is recognizing when it spins off the rails and backtracking immediately. Most of the time something can be gleaned from t

Part of the skill in using these tools is recognizing when it spins off the rails and backtracking immediately. Most of the time something can be gleaned from that wrong approach which can then guide further attempts.

joshstrange 2y ago
This is my experience with Aider. When I first started using it, I turned off the auto git commits, but I’ve since turned them back on because they serve as perfect rollback points. My personal style is only commit once I have a feature fully working but with Aider it's best to have it commit after each exchange. I've gone 2-6 steps down a path before realizing this isn't going to work or the LLM is stuck in a loop. I just hard reset back to the first commit in that chain and either approach the task differently or skip it if it wasn't really that important.