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Show HN: Experimenting with Autonomous Coding Assistants in VSCode [video]

4 pointsby binalpatel9 months ago
Fun little project I created with Sonnet 3.5 in a few hours.<p>Essentially exploring the idea of a coding assistant that can interact with the workspace and run shell commands without any user verification, while allowing the user to still direct it&#x2F;modify files.<p>It&#x27;s been pretty fun to mess with, and surprisingly useful sometimes with things like the LLM running a script, seeing an error in the terminal, and being able to debug&#x2F;update the script without any intervention.<p>Half-baked code here, requires VSCode Insiders for now because I&#x27;m using their new shell integration:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;caesarnine&#x2F;vscode-ctxl">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;caesarnine&#x2F;vscode-ctxl</a>

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binalpatel9 months ago
One fun detail - I don&#x27;t know any Typescript nor have I ever coded a VSCode extension before, so this was all made going back and forth with Sonnet 3.5 + digging through the VSCode repo to figure out how their new proposed shell integration API works.