VectorOps Know - Intro
It just happened that I settled (for now) with Aider as my AI coding tool. Overall, it works fine, gives full control over the coding process, and I’ve come up with a coding loop that mostly satisfies me. I do all the thinking; the LLM fills in the gaps and writes the code.
I particularly like Aider’s repomap feature. Aider parses project files with tree-sitter, runs queries over AST trees to extract symbol definitions and references, and then applies a recommendation algorithm to find relevant files for symbols or file names mentioned in the source prompt. File contents are then trimmed and added to the LLM context.
But as with any tool, Aider is not perfect. Sometimes I would prefer the tool to find and offer a list of files to change on its own. Sometimes I would want it to validate proposed changes against another LLM-enabled linting step. Aider’s fixed workflow feel limiting for simplier things.
That being said, I’ve wanted to do a hobby project in the AI space for a while, mainly to keep up with the latest developments. Then I thought: why not build something that is useful and that I can use myself?
