Building a Personal Coding Assistant in Just 6 Lines of Code

Introduction

These days many companies are using AI coding assistants to automate boilerplate code for product listings, allowing developers to work on more complex features. Recently, Devin (the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer) was launched. It’s designed to handle a wide range of coding tasks, from generating lines of code based on prompts to debugging, deploying applications, and even learning new technologies to solve novel challenges. Other examples of competent assistant AI in the world of closed-source products include Github’s CoPilot Chat. But what about if we wanted to use an open-source alternative?

This article includes hands-on tutorial for implementing a LLM powered code assistant, using the open source model CodeLlama. This model is available on HuggingFace.

You can ask questions to this code assistant, and it will answer in natural language with code snippets.