zackees / aicode

aicode

The most advanced ai coding tool on the planet.

About

Okay well aider.chat is by far the BEST aicoding assistant on the planet. But aicode, a front end for aider.chat is EASIER TO USE! So use this whenever you can for Windows/Linux/MacOS. Think of aicode as aider.chat but on easy mode.

One foot gun here is that aider.chat only works on files in a git repo. therefore you must be in a git repo for aicode to work. This is required because aider.chat will generate a repo map as part of the query.

Usage:

pip install advanced-aicode
aicode

Note

The package name is NOT the same as the command tool. The package is advanced-aicode and the tool is called aicode. Someone else grabbed package name aicode over a year ago and this is the best name I could come up with to get it into pypi.

aicode is better than aider.chat in the following ways

• aicode is easier to install. Like WAY easier. It will tell you what you need to do to complete the installation, such as setting the api key if none are detected.
• aicode will not f@ck up your global pip environment. We fix this by lazily installing aider.chat using pipx
• aicode will change the directory to a the project root containing a .git directory. aider.chat will just fail to run.
• aicode will default to NOT creating a git commit on every change. Instead it will just raw dog it to your current repo. This simplifies usage because most of the time you will only be editing one file and if you don't like the change you can just invoke undo on the file. If you want to create a git commit on every change (so that you can use /undo) then pass in aicode -a. This works better if you are editing multiple files and want and want to step back in history, must most of the time it's better to just let aicode work on one file at a time.
• aicode has the benefit of allowing easy upgrades to aider.chat from the command line using aicode --update which will invoke pipx update on the backend.
• aicode will default to using ChatGPT4-o if it detects you have have an openapi key.
• aicode will save and insert the environmental variables on demand. aider.chat requires that you insert these variables in your ~/.bashrc file (linux) or the equivalent for Windows and MacOS.
• aicode will check for new versions in the background and inform you of an update on the NEXT run of aicode and the command line you can use. This was a feature that aider.chat program actually implemented for this project.
• aicode will ask you to modify the .gitignore file so that you aren't uploading your f*cking chat history to your repo by default.

Happy CODING!

Releases

• 1.1.8 - Custom path now set for pipx, should fix most pipx issues.
• 1.1.7 - Version detection fixed now that the api has been made much better.
• 1.1.6 - Fixes has update when the versions match
• 1.1.5 - Fixes --just-check-update which had a typo in the last version as --just-check-updated
• 1.1.4 - Fixes aider --check-update with --just-check-update
• 1.1.3 - Fixes aider --skip-check-update which is now --no-check-update
• 1.1.1 - Fix a infinit recursion loop while trying to find the .git directory.
• 1.1.0 - The --slow, --fast, --claude3 are not long used. Now it's just --chatgpt and --claude.
• 1.0.4 - If --upgrade fails, then attempt recovery by asking the user to upgrade pipx and then try again.
• 1.0.3 - Improved version parsing so that stuff like X.X.X-dev can be parsed.
• 1.0.2 - `--claude3`` now maps to sonnet mode. This is now the default if both keys are present for claude3 and openai.
• 1.0.1 - Improve readme.
• 1.0.0 - Initial release.