Chat modes

Aider has 3 different chat modes:

• code - Aider will make changes to your code to satisfy your requests.
• ask - Aider will answer questions about your code, but never edit it.
• help - Aider will answer questions about using aider, configuring, troubleshooting, etc.

By default, aider starts in “code” mode. As you are talking, you can send individual messages in a specific mode using /code, /ask, and /help commands: Using /code, /ask, and /help applies just to that particular message. Your next message will go back to the active mode (usually “code” mode by default).

You can switch the active mode in a sticky way with the /chat-mode <mode> command:

/chat-mode code
/chat-mode ask
/chat-mode help

Or you can launch aider in one of the modes with the --chat-mode <mode> switch.

Aider v0.47.1-dev
Models: claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620 with diff edit format
Git repo: .git with 298 files
Repo-map: using 1024 tokens
Use /help to see in-chat commands, run with –help to see cmd line args

/ask What is this repo?

This is the source code to the popular django package.

/help How do I use ollama?

Run aider --model ollama/<ollama-model>. See these docs for more info: https://aider.chat/docs/llms/ollama.html

/code Add a function to calculate the factorial of a number

Certainly! I’ll add a function to calculate the factorial of a number. Here’s the change:

def factorial(n):
    if n == 0 or n == 1:
        return 1
    else:
        return n * factorial(n - 1)

# Example usage
print(factorial(5))  # Output: 120

This function uses recursion to calculate the factorial. It’s been added to your code.