Hi, I’m Wolfgang Faust.

I said in my last post that I was going to try out OpenHands; but then somebody showed me Aider Chat and I decided to try that instead, on the strength of a personal recommendation. The results were very good, and confirmed my suspicions that having the AI agent as a collaborator rather than attempting to one-shot it seems like a good idea. I got a fix I’m happy with in one go, with only a little bit of hinting and none of the fiddling with prompts that I had to do to keep SWE-agent from going off the rails.

Like almost everybody, I’ve been using LLMs more and more recently. I’ve used ChatGPT to generate quick scripts, and I use GitHub Copilot autocompletions in my IDE; but I haven’t yet tried going as far as getting an LLM to autonomously make a complicated change in an existing codebase. So, in the spirit of my post on 20 minutes with Alpaca.cpp, here's a post about a morning with SWE-agent.

Feep! now has a dark mode theme! The stylesheet for the site is a fairly minimal set of overrides on top of the browser default stylesheet, so adding this support was actually pretty straightforward, though there were a few complications.