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Show HN: Experimenting with Autonomous Coding Assistants in VSCode [video] (youtube.com)
4 points by binalpatel 652 days ago
Fun little project I created with Sonnet 3.5 in a few hours.

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/modify files.

It'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/update the script without any intervention.

Half-baked code here, requires VSCode Insiders for now because I'm using their new shell integration:

https://github.com/caesarnine/vscode-ctxl
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binalpatel 652 days ago
One fun detail - I don'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.
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