Log

This is the log of my first test with Aider

Initiate this project

uv init aider-testing
uv add --dev aider-chat

Add key to .env

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-api03-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Start aider

uv run aider

It will ask to create a git repository, which is nice

Create a game of pong

• /HELP
• /help

Okay, asking for help needs some practice ☺️.

I started by following the example chat for creating a Pong game

• can you make a simple game of pong with pygame?
• go ahead
• the ball moves too fast
• The paddles need to be bigger and with different colors.
• Can you run the shell command with uv run python instead of python?

Then I wanted to try some of my own experiments:

• Can you ask for the name of the player prior to the start and show the initial on the paddle?
• Can you make the paddle movve faster?
• Can you make the paddle faster the longer you press the key? Like every 0.2 secs 20% faster
• Make the computer player miss the ball randomly like every 10 times
• If the player types multiple words for her name, use all the initial for each word
• /help
• /ask how many lines of code
• /lint
• /models
• /ls
• /diff
• /help
• /tokens

Full transcipt is here.

Final result

Costs

Approximate context window usage for claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620, in tokens:  
$ 0.0052    1,735 system messages  
$ 0.0062    2,065 chat history    use /clear to clear  
$ 0.0052    1,727 pong.py         /drop to remove  
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$ 0.0166    5,527 tokens total  
194,473 tokens remaining in context window  
200,000 tokens max context window size