Show HN: Aye Chat: AI-First development in your terminal
github.comWe’ve just opened the public beta of Aye Chat, a terminal‑based AI coding assistant.
It’s terminal-native, not built first for UI and then retrofitted for command line: we built it for ourselves out of AWS/Linux/Python environment because none of the other tools we tried - including GitHub Copilot CLI - quite fit our needs.
Try for yourself if you are in the same niche, after a few days - you don’t notice how - it becomes addictive.
Quick start:
1. Install: “pip install ayechat”
2. Start chatting from your source folder: “aye chat”, and use it to explore your code base, update files, diff and restore snapshots, etc.
We’re also running a small beta giveaway: the five contributors who submit the highest count of valid non-duplicate GitHub issues by November, 30, 2025, 11:59 PM UTC each receive *10M prompt token credits* for the Anthropic Claude Opus model in Aye Chat environment.
Happy hacking! - and looking forward to your feedback (Aye Chat developer here). We’re looking for feedback on usability, feature set, and, of course, bugs. Join the conversation on *Hacker News*, on our GitHub issues page, and on our Discord server. All links are in the README. Thank you!