World Congress 2024 • Aug 29, 2024 • Session details

Livecoding with AI

Rainer Stropek

Intercept GitHub Copilot's network traffic to reveal exactly how AI models stream code. Watch a complete web application built from a single photograph in just 30 minutes.

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#1 about 2 min

Building a word clock with artificial intelligence in thirty minutes

Executing a rapid live coding session to demonstrate building a word clock using generative models.

#2 about 4 min

Generating structural HTML and CSS from reference images

Supplying screenshots to multimodal artificial intelligence to instantly create styled frontend components.

#3 about 3 min

Generating TypeScript types from existing HTML structure

Automating tedious boilerplate generation by prompting an assistant to extract data types from markup code.

#4 about 2 min

Writing application logic using comment-driven development

Using descriptive English comments to prompt code completion tools for specific functional behaviors.

#5 about 6 min

Intercepting AI code completion traffic with a proxy

Setting up a local network proxy to inspect the data exchanged between the editor and completion services.

#6 about 4 min

Creating complex calculation methods with contextual chat prompts

Selecting relevant code snippets to provide scoped context for generating targeted mathematical functions while avoiding hallucination.

#7 about 5 min

Analyzing the internal system prompts of AI assistants

Inspecting network payloads to reveal the internal system instructions and model version routing driving conversational tools.

#8 about 4 min

Automating unit test generation to verify artificial intelligence output

Generating test suites for automatically written functions to enforce reliability and catch unexpected logical errors.

#9 about 4 min

Translating raw data into application state logic

Instructing a chat assistant to map specific data calculations directly into functional user interface states.

#10 about 3 min

Addressing AI limitations and best practices in development

Exploring techniques for providing metadata to models, the benefits of strict typing, and handling token limits.

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