yup you can compile, we tested and made sure all the features work before posting

Could you update the repo without force-pushing or rewriting the commit history?

Also, it would be great if you could tag the versions as well.

> The state of its Windows support is unclear to me.

yeah this one is a bit weird, you can run the linux binary using WSL and that should work. We have a window flavor build but its not as heavily tested yet (we are figuring out a better testing flow for windows)

Thanks for the clarification! I'm sure your team is already aware but Windows users perceive support as native binaries (no WSL) that can run in a normal environment (no Git Bash or Linux utilities).

Agree, I use Windows, Mac and Linux, and work with .NET developers, so primarily Windows devs, some aren't even aware what WSL is.

Wait, why is Windows different? I'm pretty sure you could get it to compile and run consistently across all three platforms, or is this an issue with the TUI?

yes! we wanted to make sure that the binary works in your editors or via `-p`, no point in standing guard to how you would want to use it.

hey I am the engineer who worked on the TUI and harness and happy to answer your questions.

We worked quite heavily on the TUI, its written in ratatui and we did try to go the extra mile to make sure that there won't be any regressions from moving to an alt-screen rendering. Lots and lots of small details to manage and get correct, we also tried to get vim keybindings correct while keeping it mouse friendly.

Was there a reason you guys went with ratatui? I made one myself but I went with iocraft instead, it has its quirks that are annoying me, might just have Claude reimplement it in ratatui to see the difference...

Hey I am the coredev on sidecar. The reason you see autogenerated PRs is cause I am using our agents to write the code for the agent lol

The big difference is the complete loop, each PR gets its own VM with the tool chains installed so the agent can run cargo check or cargo tests etc.

We do find the LLMs of today are not the best elite engineers but very very competent junior engineers. It's been a weird but eye opening workflow to use.

I am super interested in sidecar. When will it support o3-mini-high?

I also need an SDK to script it, tbh. What I want is to have actually a few different agents that interact with each other. Do you expose a good SDK?

I does support o3-mini-high already, we use it for a few flows in the agent.

What kind of SDK support are you looking for?

Hey! One of the creators of Aide here.

ngl the total expenditure was around $10k, in terms of test-time compute we ran upto 20X agents on the same problem to first understand if the bitter lesson paradigm of "scale is the answer" really holds true.

The final submission which we did ran 5X agents and the decider was based on mean average score of the rewards, per problem the cost was around $20

We are going to push this scaling paradigm a bit more, my honest gut feeling is that swe-bench as a benchmark is prime for saturation real soon

1. These problem statements are in the training data for the LLMs

2. Brute-forcing the answer the way we are doing works and we just proved it, so someone is going to take a better stab at it real soon

I do have to ask, I have worked in codebases which used lifetimes and didn't lean into Rc/Arc and vice-versa.

I used to think Arc/Rc was a shortcut to avoiding the borrow checker shenanigans, but have evolved that thinking over time.

You do mention it in your comment so wondering if you have anything to share about it

Rust can be hard to get right because of the borrow checker. I had a similar situation happen to me where I went about refactoring the code to make borrow checker happy ... until the last bit when things stopped compiling and I realized my approach was completely wrong (in the rust world, I had a self-reference in the structs)

Having said this, the benefits of borrow checker out weight the shortcomings. I can feel myself writing better code in other languages (I tend to think about the layout and the mutability and lifetimes upfront more now)

My rust code now is very functional, which seems to work best with lifetimes.

I would love to know more about the authors pain, I do hope rustc gets better at lifetime compilation errors cause some of them can be very very gnarly.

> I do hope rustc gets better at lifetime compilation errors cause some of them can be very very gnarly.

When this happens, file tickets! We do our best to improve diagnostics over time, but the best improvements have been reactive, by fixing a case that we never encountered but our users did.

will keep that in mind going forward! The most recent ones which I have been hitting are around "higher-ranked lifetime error"

I know my way around this now, which is to literally binary search over the timeline of my edits (commenting out code and then reintroducing it) to see what causes the compiler to trip over (there might be better ways to debug this, and I am all ears)

Most of the times this error is several layers deep in my application so even tho I want to ticket it up, not being able to create a minimal repo for anyone to iterate against feels like a bit of wasted energy on all sides, do let me know if I should change this way of thinking and I can promise myself to start being more proactive.

If it's public code, a link to a branch with the issue can still be useful. Looking at the compiler internals you can get a better sense on how to minimize the issue. That being said, not having a minimised repro lowers the chance of it getting addressed quickly.

Even if you have already figured out how to deal with it, your future colleagues might not, and by improving the diagnostic you would also be getting that time manually commenting code back.

> Rust can be hard to get right because of the borrow checker.

In the same vein: «C/C++ can be hard to get right because of the valgrind.» ;-)

I am missing the link to the thread, but diffusion models also give a very consistent output when prompted with `IMG_{number}` part of the reason could be the training data distribution

Thats a fair point, a significant part of our 4 person team had to skill up on the VSCode codebase to be able to meaningfully make changes to it.

I would love to know your workflow, you mention CLI tool or VSCode plugin, which one of them work for you? Whats missing from them where Aide can fill in the gap

Plugin, which gives you access to the UI.

Make a plugin that interfaces with a CLI tool! Best of both worlds, I think!