talk: Agentic Vibe Coding from the Terminal 1-2:30pm ET, April 3, 2026, ITE 325b and online

Agentic Vibe Coding from the Terminal

Prof. Tim Oates, UMBC
1-2:30pm ET, April 3, 2026, ITE 325b and online


LLMs have become surprisingly capable coding partners. Prof. Tim Oates will give a technical overview of why coding assistants work (internet-scale code + documentation pretraining, instruction tuning, and feedback loops), and where they predictably fail (ambiguous specs, hidden requirements, brittle dependencies, and "confidently wrong" outputs). Most of the session is live, terminal-based demos using Claude Code. He will start from plain-English requirements and iteratively produce working implementations: scaffolding a small project, generating tests, debugging failures, refactoring for clarity/performance, and adding documentation. Along the way, he will highlight practical workflows: "spec-first prompting", test-driven prompting, using the assistant to explain unfamiliar code, and using constraints to keep changes small and reviewable. The goal is for faculty and students to leave with repeatable patterns for using coding assistants effectively - without outsourcing understanding or sacrificing correctness.

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