Sven Latham
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Sven Latham
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Technical Architect at Greater London Authority. Chair of Governors at Bridgemary School, Hampshire. All views my own. Software dev, AI, electronics and miscellany.
For organisations/people keen to show disclosure, this seems like an important feature: aider.chat/docs/config/... You can ensure that aider commits have a different author, so changes are very easy to blame & see whether it was human or AI contributed.
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March 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
aider.chat is the website. I'm using VS Code on a Chromebook, with Aider in a separate terminal window (for chat). It auto-commits by default so every change it makes can be inspected in GitHub.
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March 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Bonus: I asked Aider to add some unit tests. It happily obliged, creating a series of assertions for the most fragile functions. However, it didn't add the proper imports and the code failed at first. Aider automatically consumed the error message and fixed its own mistake. Neat!
March 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Aider takes prompts from a chat window. I asked it to connect to open-meteo.com API and get local weather data. It wasn't entirely no-code - it didn't quite get the icons right at first, but did a pretty good job and tried to align with my existing patterns.
March 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Aider connects to your AI of choice. I used OpenAI and $5 in credit to get started. Several commits later, I've spent 41 cents.
March 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
So far, so good. Nginx serving local pages. Seems I can only use high port numbers, and it's inside a VM with local-only access. I'm wondering if something like ZeroTier or a VPN will work for remote access - can't see why not.
Docker's also been installed...
March 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM