> > All of the above are closed-source solutions. > > Not Codex CLI
Indeed, I guess I need to try it out now to evaluate it. > > I have been playing > > around with the fully open https://aider.chat/ for well over a year > > and I would recommend it instead. I hope to some day write a blog post > > about how I run it inside a container safely and how I have customized > > it to give better results than what it does out-of-the-box. > > Right, aider.chat came up in another discussion, and looks promising. > There was an ITP about it (#1082026, abandonned). Yes, I am in 'X-Debbugs-Cc' for it as it was my mentee working on it, but dependencies turned out too complex. > Another Free Software alternative is Zed > (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed), but it looks less open in the > spirit than Aider. Zed is a full editor, written by the same authors who originally did Atom at GitHub, which later got killed by Microsoft in their push for VS Code, and then Atom reincarnated as Pulsar. I still use Pulsar but might switch to Zed (ITP stalled at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=10761659. Anyway, I am glad if you can contact the major LLM producers and see if they want to offer free API access to Debian Developers. Healthy scepticism is good, but we should not categorically dismiss use of LLMs.
