AI Coding

• Sign up to co-pilot

• Install VS Code

• Install the co-pilot plugin

• Authenticate

• Inline Chat

• LLMs - Large Language Models

  • autocomplete

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  • context
  • tokens
    • a word
    • part of a word
    • a single letter
  • limitations
    • No real intelligence just patterns and probabilities
    • Hallucinations

• prompts, prompt engineering

  • clear and precise
  • provides context
  • iterated and refined

• Ask only one thing in every prompt.

• In the chat window ask for some code and show the various buttons.

• TBD: How to pick the model?

• Explain the @ commands and the / commands

co-pilot CLI

• Cursor a code editor. An independent startup. (modified version of VS Code)

• Claude Code by Anthropic

  • CC is a command line tool or it can work as an extension in major IDEs.
  • Anthropic provides models such as Claude Opus 4.7

• Windsurf (Codeium) stand alone editor or plugin to JetBrains, VS Code etc.

• [Tabnine](

• OpenAI

  • Models
    • GPT-5.5
    • …
    • DALL-E 2
    • Sora

• GitHub Co-pilot

  • Models:
    • GPT-5.4
    • GPT-5.3-Codex
    • GPT-5.2
    • GPT-5.4 mini
    • GPT-5 mini
    • GPT-4.1
    • Claude Sonnet 4.6
    • Claude Haiku 4.5

General purpose LLMs

Where you can chat, create images, create music etc.

• ChatGPT by OpenAI.
• Gemini by Google.
• Claude by Anthropic. (probably)

Models

by Antrhopic

• Claude Opus (4.x series)
• Claude Sonnet (4.x series)

by OpenAI

• GPT-5
• Codex

by Google

• Gemini

by Microsoft

• Phi (but it is not very popular)

MCP = Model Context Protocol (an open AI standard)