Aide

About Aide

Aide is an AI-powered coding assistant designed to enhance your coding speed and knowledge. It's like having the best programmer you know by your side, offering intelligent and context-aware code suggestions. Aide doesn't just look at your active files, but it also integrates with the Language Server to navigate and utilize related code for a growing list of languages.

Background and Development

Aide is a product of CodeStory, a company dedicated to enhancing the coding experience. It's built on top of VSCode, ensuring all your settings, keybindings, and extensions work seamlessly.

Core Features and Capabilities

Aide offers AI-powered code suggestions, inline completion, and chat support. You can invoke a chat conversation with Aide anytime, ask questions, and refer to files or code symbols. It also offers offline functionality and privacy, as it runs entirely on your machine with no servers between the IDE and the language model.

User Experience

Aide is designed to be user-friendly, with easy-to-use commands and shortcuts. It also allows you to import settings and keybindings from VSCode for a seamless transition.

Applications and Use Cases

Aide is suitable for developers of all levels, from beginners to experts. It can be used in various scenarios, from coding for personal projects to enterprise-level applications.

Impact and Future Outlook

Aide is shaping the future of AI in coding, with its open-source model configuration support. It allows you to pick an infra provider and model of choice, add your API key, and start coding. All queries made to the model are available to you in a SQLite DB locally, and the prompts are open source.