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