Paul Gauthier

Creator of Aider, the leading open-source AI pair programming tool in the terminal.

United States

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Paul Gauthier built Aider, the most popular open-source terminal-based AI pair programming tool. It achieves 84.9% correctness on code editing benchmarks and supports every major AI model from Claude to GPT to DeepSeek. Aider represents a different philosophy from Cursor and other IDE-based tools. It works in the terminal, integrates with git, and gives developers fine-grained control over how AI edits their code. The project has become the go-to choice for developers who prefer command-line workflows.