Aider Researcher about aider

[paul-gauthier]

You can use the /web command to add any url to the chat.

[fire17]

Yea just like adding a file.. but the great thing is that aider can find the right files without me adding it, and should gather material from online by itself aswell.

If Aider thinks that a task is non-trivial, it can run Google search, get all of the sites and rank them in terms of usability, how modern they are, and relevance to the task.
Display to the user but what it's found in the research, and ultimately which chunks of each guide was chosen to help solve this task

I hope we do know by itself how to find online coding guides, answers from stack overflow, and useful GitHub libraries and repos that enable or do something close to the current set of tasks.

Thanks @paul-gauthier , I love pingponging with you, all the best !

[rawwerks]

@fire17 -

1. see my comment in #508 regarding a community that is excited by these same ideas.

2. one thing to keep in mind is that with LLMs in general, and even with very sophisticated RAG pipelines (which I believe @paul-gauthier is working on adding ) --- more information does not reliably lead to better outputs. this is specifically true in code-generation models, where adding a bunch of human-written (or at least "natural language") documentation actually takes the LLM away from writing code well. in other words - my sense is that adding a "perplexity"-style search in front of aider will make aider dumber. (unless there is a really smart agent that is taking the search and then re-writing instructions to aider, but again that's an agent, not aider.) see this discussion for additional thoughts on this: https://forum.cursor.sh/t/has-cursor-gotten-dumb/2884/14?u=raw.works