Learning Generative AI

AI Agent Complete My One Month Coding Assignment In A Few Minutes

My First Experience Using Agentic AI Using VSCode, Copilot and Claude Sonnet.

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More than 20 years ago, I recall doing a coding assignment for my Natural Language Processing paper at uni, I pick this task to write an Eliza program using C++, together with Flex and Bison Parser.

As I was studying part-time, and attended the course once every week, I have about a month time to complete the assignment, and it gave me very first “ChatGPT” feeling I’ve ever get from a computer program back then. Very satisfying.

Now with Agentic AI, what’s much more better than asking it to program this for me, instead of simple function such as “Factorial” or “Fibonacci”. Let’s see how well it goes.

If you’re first time trying Agentic AI Coding too, this is for you. Here, I’ll be sharing it step-by-step.

Pre-requisite

I’ll be using VSCode, with Copilot. If you haven’t had them, you can find the instruction here to set them up.

Then, setup the Python Extension in VSCode using

Code → Settings → Extension → Python → Install