Telemetry

[fry69]

I have thought about telemetry a bit, it should be

• opt-in of course
• pseudonymous based on aider session (meaning every aider session can be tracked, but not users)

Things I'd love to see collected and graphed (beside exceptions, which currently fill up the GitHub issues):

Mandatory:

• chat mode
• git repo size (files)
• repo map size
• model name/id
• edit format
• prompt/request size (tokens)
• response size (tokens)
• errors
• cost

Optional:

• command name (without content, just to see how often a command gets used in the wild)
• TBD

Again, this should be totally optional and session pseudonymous, but it would allow to generate very interesting graphs how aider gets used and hopefully inspire to better use and develop aider.

If there is interest I think I could whip up a proof-of-concept (thinking of using PostHog for this) and try to generate some dummy graphs, but I love to hear input on this topic.

[Kreijstal]

opt-in Mandatory

huh

[fry69]

opt-in Mandatory

huh

Simple logic: If a user opts in, those are things I think are mandatory for a minimal but effective overview how aider gets used in the wild.