aider

Aider is a command line tool that lets you pair program with GPT-3.5/GPT-4, to edit code stored in your local git repository. Aider will directly edit the code in your local source files, and git commit the changes with sensible commit messages. You can start a new project or work with an existing git repo. Aider is unique in that it lets you ask for changes to pre-existing, larger codebases.

Features

• Chat with GPT about your code by launching aider from the command line with set of source files to discuss and edit together. Aider lets GPT see and edit the content of those files.
• GPT can write and edit code in most popular languages: python, javascript, typescript, php, html, css, etc.
• Request new features, changes, improvements, or bug fixes to your code. Ask for new test cases, updated documentation or code refactors.
• Aider will apply the edits suggested by GPT directly to your source files.
• Aider will automatically commit each changeset to your local git repo with a descriptive commit message. These frequent, automatic commits provide a safety net. It’s easy to undo changes or use standard git workflows to manage longer sequences of changes.
• You can use aider with multiple source files at once, so GPT can make coordinated code changes across all of them in a single changeset/commit.
• Aider can give GPT-4 a map of your entire git repo, which helps it understand and modify large codebases.
• You can also edit files by hand using your editor while chatting with aider. Aider will notice these out-of-band edits and keep GPT up to date with the latest versions of your files. This lets you bounce back and forth between the aider chat and your editor, to collaboratively code with GPT.
• If you are using gpt-4 through openai directly, you can add image files to your context which will automatically switch you to the gpt-4-vision-preview model.