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Tools: Aide
Category: AI assistants and agents
Site: aide.dev
Aide
An agent that spends more compute at inference time on harder engineering problems rather than answering immediately.
Buys accuracy with time.
What it is sold for
Working through engineering tasks that need more than one pass.
Same shelf
The rest of ai assistants and agents, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
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- A TypeScript toolkit that puts one interface in front of many model providers, including streaming and tool calls.
- Pair programming in the terminal. Reads the repository, proposes edits, and commits them to git with a message.
- Amazon's original completion assistant. The name is retired and the address now serves Amazon Q Developer.
- Amazon's coding assistant, integrated with AWS accounts and services rather than with the editor alone.
- Sourcegraph's agent and development environment, including unsupervised runs in hosted sandboxes.
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