Craig Latta - Livecoding Language Models: AI Context in Live Environments - 26 March 2025

For our March meeting, Craig Latta shows how to leverage AI language models in a livecoding environment. Using a tool creates context for complimentary tools. For example, selecting an object in a Smalltalk inspector creates useful context for browsing the class of that object. This is a potent idea in an integrated development environment, where multiple tools operate on related information. The extensive context in a live environment enables powerful collaboration with contemporary AI language models. Tools built from that collaboration could greatly augment human capability. Craig shows some foundations for them, and suggest ways of easing their construction through the systematic description of existing tool functionality. For a preview, please see Craig's blog at thiscontext.com ( https://thiscontext.com/ ). Craig Latta ( https://thiscontext.com/author/ccrraaiigg/ ) is a research computer scientist in Berkeley and Amsterdam, with interests including livecoding, music performance, and interactive visualization. The discovery of a mysteriously-placed Blue Book at university led to stints at several exploratory labs, and a pursuit of improvisation wherever code is found. His current work focuses on polyglot computing with WebAssembly, the novel compiler framework Epigram, and human augmentation through AI.