We are pleased to announce that due to popular demand, we are adding another AI++ 101 workshop to facilitate users in the West Coast of America!
All registrations include free on-demand and early access to the C++Online 2026 main conference talks - so you get both deep training and three days of C++ presentations, networking and community content.
AI++ 101 - Build an AI Coding Assistant in C++ by Jody Hagins
Friday 24th July 16:00 - 00:00 UTC / 09:00 - 17:00 PDT - £345/$460/€400 - £90/$120/€105 for students
Remember writing a compiler in university? Not a real compiler of course, but a toy that handled a subset of a language and generated naive code. You'd never ship it. But decades later, you still understand how compilers work because you built one.
That's what we're doing here. In one day, you'll build a working AI coding harness in C++.
Not Claude Code. Not Cursor. A simple, but complete harness that you fully understand. It talks to an LLM, defines tools, executes them, and runs the same agentic loop that powers every AI coding assistant on the market.
We will then use the minimal working harness, along with AI models, to modify its own C++ source code, adding features and more advanced functionality.
This experience will provide you with a fundamental understanding of how these tools work, so you can better use them as you move into the world of generative AI programming.