Best AI For Coding - Aider Chat Tutorial

Aider Chat is an advanced command line chat tool based on OpenAI's powerful GPT models. Unique in its kind and with its wide range of features, it is among the best AI for coding. GPT-4's ability to understand and modify larger codebases is remarkable. In addition, Aider can commit, diff and revert changes suggested by GPT. The tool is easy to install via pip, requires an OpenAI API key and an optional ctags installation if you are working with larger repositories. Aider also lets you chat directly with GPT to request new features or suggest improvements and bug fixes. All these aspects make it the best AI for coding.

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TIMESTAMPS
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▶ 00:00 - Intro
▶ 00:24 - Setup (Windows)
▶ 01:36 - Demo "Todo App"
▶ 02:50 - Outro

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SETUP (WINDOWS)
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1. Download & install Python
▶▶▶ https://python.org/

2. Install Aider via pip:
▶▶▶ pip install aider-chat

2. Download & install Git
▶▶▶ https://git-scm.com/

3. Create new OpenAI API-Key
▶▶▶ https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys

4. Set env variable:
▶▶▶ CMD/Windows ▶ set OPENAI_API_KEY=dein-schlüssel-geht-hier
▶▶▶ Terminal/MacOS ▶ export OPENAI_API_KEY=dein-schlüssel-geht-hier

5. Chocolately:
▶▶▶ https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/choco/setup
▶▶▶ CMD:
@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

6. Univseral CTags via Choco:
▶▶▶ choco install universal-ctags

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LINKS
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Aider Chat (Github):
▶ https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider