Paul Gauthier

AI Leader

Creator of Aider @ Aider AI

San Francisco, CA

Creator of Aider, the leading open-source AI pair programming tool with 20,000+ GitHub stars. Previously CTO at Groupon and VP of Engineering at Geomagical Labs (acquired by IKEA in 2021) where he developed computer vision for AR applications. BS from Dalhousie, MS from University of Washington, PhD-level research at UC Berkeley.

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GitHub Mar 9, 2026

paul-gauthier pushed aider

paul-gauthier pushed to main in Aider-AI/aider · March 9, 2026 22:00 2 commits to main 975e5a8 861a1e4 #4899 from turian/codex/python-3-14-support

GitHub Mar 3, 2026

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GitHub Feb 25, 2026

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GitHub Feb 19, 2026

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paul-gauthier pushed to main in Aider-AI/aider · February 19, 2026 02:33 2 commits to main f730853 7afaa26 #4674 from chr15m/add-readonly-no-git

GitHub Feb 19, 2026

paul-gauthier pushed aider

paul-gauthier pushed to main in Aider-AI/aider · February 19, 2026 02:31 2 commits to main 4e77720 cf72acf #4682 from chr15m/no-auto-commits-staging

GitHub Feb 16, 2026

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paul-gauthier pushed to main in Aider-AI/aider · February 16, 2026 16:26 2 commits to main b2bec25 #4711) b9050e1 #4838 from clayarnoldg2m/fix/4711-symlink-loop

GitHub Feb 16, 2026

paul-gauthier closed an issue in aider

paul-gauthier closed an issue in Aider-AI/aider · February 16, 2026 08:26 Uncaught RuntimeError in pathlib.py line 1074 #4711

GitHub Feb 16, 2026

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paul-gauthier pushed to main in Aider-AI/aider · February 16, 2026 00:25 1 commit to main 4625ebb

GitHub Feb 14, 2026

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paul-gauthier pushed to main in Aider-AI/aider · February 14, 2026 14:17 2 commits to main 172df73 e6f8edd #4830 from chr15m/add-readonly-no-git-feature

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"It's really like having your senior developer live right in your Git repo - truly amazing!"
— Aider user testimonial

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