For any intermediate developer (2 or more years) audience
"You need to be using AI." "AI is the next wave of the future." "AI will tok ur jeb!" The slogans and memes have been with us now for a while, and there's a widespread feeling that they're "the next big thing", but despite all the hype and column-inches spent on discussing the pros and cons and wins and losses of using an LLM-powered coding agent, very few developers know what they are, exactly, or how they work.
In this presentation we're going to make full use of the various open-source equivalents to all the popular names--Copilot, Claude, Opus, and Sonnet--and walk through all the layers that make up the "coding agent stack". We'll look at open-source tools that make up the stack, and by the end, we might even have a completely free replacement for Claude Code or Copilot. (Assuming, of course, that by the time you see this talk the indusry hasn't completely abandoned coding agents in favor of the "next NEXT big thing.")
Published on 07 April 2026