In the Star Wars universe, many pilots have an astromech copilot. Luke had R2-D2 in the back of his X-Wing for example. As developers, we too have copilots. Although these are not as cool as R2, and don’t help us blow up the Death Star, they do help us with our day to day tasks like writing code.

Whilst copilots can be boring, Jim thought it would be fun to create one inspired by Star Wars to help him with important tasks, such as describing his Lego collection (Star Wars Lego of course), and helping him write code, all done in the style of a Jedi.

In this session, Jim will walk you through the steps to build your own copilot, powered by Pieces OS, the core engine that drives Pieces for Developers. By leveraging Pieces OS, your copilot can not only access an LLM of your choice from a range of cloud and on-device models, but you can also add assets to your chat’s context, such as code, documents, and plans for the Death Star. And just like a Jedi can sense the living force, Pieces OS can sense your presence and answer questions without needing additional documentation, such as summarizing your research on Wookiepedia. And best of all, reply like Yoda, it can!

By the end of this session, you will be able to complete your apprenticeship and build your own open source AI copilot.