Aide
Dev tools
ai code editor
SHOW HN2024
How HN took it
7 positive, 29 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 15 critical, out of 52 comments about the project. Thread score -0.19.
Idea: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 5 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Open source and local-first control of data
From 1 comment
Open Source; giving full ownership of the data to the users; running completely locally; we want to make sure you can use Aide no matter the environment you are in.
skp1995 on HN
Rollback feature praised as important
From 1 comment
VSCode forks are not new, there are many companies out there building towards this vision. What sets us apart is partly our philosophy (deeply integrating into the editor) and…
skp1995 on HN
Objections
Forking VSCode creates ongoing maintenance burden
From 1 comment
I'd much, much prefer Aide to continue as a CLI tool or as a VSCode plugin. Every fork of VSCode ends up with IDE maintenance bugs that never get addressed and slowly the effort…
jadbox on HN
Name already used by other projects (AIDE, Android IDE)
From 2 comments
AIDE has been around for 25 years: https://aide.github.io/ IMHO the right thing would be to use another name.
fermigier on HNNot only is the name Aide already used by another project, it’s even also an IDE. https://www.android-ide.com/
solarkraft on HN
Privacy and telemetry concerns
From 1 comment
What is the privacy policy? Do you get to see my code and secrets? Does anybody else? I don't want you to. Nothing personal.
bagels on HN
Download links and sign-up flow were broken
From 2 comments
Looks like the download links from your landing page are broken? ``` Looks like our build pipeline is broken! Click here to let us know? ```
drag0s on HN> 2. Once the assistant window input became active, I wrote something short like "hi", but nothing happenned after pressing ctrl-Enter. I rageclicked around a bit, it's possible…
skp1995 on HN
Requests
Support Claude via AWS Bedrock
From 1 comment
Any short-term plans for Claude via AWS Bedrock? (That's for me personally a blocker for trying it on our main codebase.)
xpasky on HN
Linux binaries
From 1 comment
Hmm, any time frame for when Linux (.deb,flatpak) binaries will be available?
SilentM68 on HN
Support for other LLMs such as Qwen
From 1 comment
I see Qwen 2.5 is not listed on your website, is plugging in different llms supported as well?
CyberCatMeow on HN
Questions
How does it differ from Cursor?
From 1 comment
What differentiates Aide from all the existing tools in this space like Cursor?
pseudo_rand000 on HN
Why a fork rather than an extension?
From 1 comment
Why is a fork required? I use the cline plugin for VS Code and it seems to be able to be able to more things, like update code directly, create new files, etc.
gman83 on HN
Is the sidecar open source?
From 1 comment
Is the "sidecar" open source too?
morgante on HN
Alternatives named
Cursor
From 1 comment
What differentiates Aide from all the existing tools in this space like Cursor?
pseudo_rand000 on HN
Cline
From 1 comment
Why is a fork required? I use the cline plugin for VS Code and it seems to be able to be able to more things, like update code directly, create new files, etc.
gman83 on HN
Zed
From 1 comment
This is very similar to the Zed editor. How much did you get inspired by them? And what are the differences between yours and their implementations?
ilrwbwrkhv on HN
Aider
From 1 comment
Aide.dev is similar to aider.chat except Aide being an IDE while Aider is a CLI
Alifatisk on HN