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Aider

Pair program in your terminal with AI support for multiple LLM providers.

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Aider is an open-source AI pair programming tool that runs in the terminal. It connects to many LLM providers (including Claude 3.7 Sonnet, DeepSeek, OpenAI o1/o3-mini/GPT-4o, and local models), maps the entire codebase to work well in larger projects, supports over 100 programming languages, integrates with git (auto-commits with sensible messages), works from within IDEs, accepts images and web pages as context, supports voice-to-code, and can automatically lint and test code changes.

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