"Malformed response" is still applied and committed, resulting in mangled output about aider

[paul-gauthier]

Thanks for trying aider and filing this issue.

Have you read the FAQ entry that is linked from the errors?
https://aider.chat/docs/faq.html#aider-isnt-editing-my-files

Have you added a lot of source code to the chat, more than just the file(s) that needs to be edited?

[lukewlms]

@paul-gauthier Thanks for the reply.

• I read the FAQ - I have not tried with a different model than Claude Opus.
• There were probably ~6-8 pages of code included from the relevant files, but from what I recall it repro'd with less code
• My read was that changes were being applied despite the malformation, when I would expect Aider to decline to apply changes if the format is incorrect (since it's asking the LLM for a redo)

[paul-gauthier]

I recently made some improvements for partially applied edits. The change is available in the main branch. You can get it by installing the latest version from github:

python -m pip install --upgrade git+https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider.git

If you have a chance to try it, let me know if it works better for you.

[paul-gauthier]

I'm going to close this issue for now, but feel free to add a comment here and I will re-open or file a new issue any time.