Agent Inception: Building bots with the Copilot CLI - David Smith

Github's Copilot CLI is a sophisticated command-line agent for coding. In this talk, I'll use Copilot CLI to build an AI bot to play an online game. CopperHead (https://github.com/revodavid/copperhead-server) is a tournament server for a 2-player Snake game that I created entirely using Copilot CLI and Claude Opus. I'll recount the process of building a game from scratch using agent prompting, and offer some tips and tricks I learned along the way for making this process easier, faster, and better aligned with your intentions. CopperHead is designed to orchestrate multiple bots playing the game in a knockout tournament format. During the talk, I will demonstrate in real time the process of creating a new player bot with the Copilot CLI. I invite attendees to create competitor bots ahead of the talk, which I will include in a live competition for everyone to watch