AI++ 201
Build a Matching Engine with Claude Code
Available to book as a 2 day online workshop on the following dates
In AI++ 101, we built a working agent coding harness.
In AI++ 201, we will use a high quality harness, Claude Code, to build a stock exchange matching engine. Not a toy, but one that conforms to IEX specifications, with the kind of IPC infrastructure you'd actually deploy: lock-free queues, seqlock arrays, a sequencer. The works.
And you won't write a single line of code yourself.
Every line comes from Claude. You prompt, you guide, you review, you course-correct, but your fingers don't type C++. By the end, you'll have a working matching engine and a visceral understanding of what AI can do with serious C++ code.
- Day 1 covers the fundamentals: how agentic loops actually work, and why C++ is uniquely challenging for generative AI. We'll discuss and experiment with these issues, and develop strategies for generating high quality C++ code as we build some of the fundamental pieces.
- Day 2 is mostly building. We start with the IEX spec and end with a matching engine that processes orders, maintains books, and publishes market data through proper shared-memory IPC. Everyone codes with their own Claude instance. Results will diverge, but that's a great learning opportunity itself.
If time allows, we may get to play with a version of Ant Farm, my system for managing agents designed to build C++ software systems.
This workshop can be attended by anyone with a foundational understanding of AI Agents - attending 101 is not required to attend 201, but is encouraged for anyone new to the subject matter
Jody Hagins
Jody Hagins earned a master's degree during the AI winter of the 1980s, authoring seven academic publications in less than a year before deciding the publish-or-perish route wasn't for him. After spending grad school in Lisp and Smalltalk, he naturally began his career writing Unix kernel code in C. After getting C++ code running in the kernel, he spent most of the last 35 years in what eventually became known as the HFT space. He approaches AI with the perfect mix of historical skepticism and practical curiosity—and has spent more time than he'd like to admit discovering how to make generative AI tools create good C++.
Attend The Workshop Taster - 11th - 13th March
If you are unsure or want a better understanding of how the workshop works in practice, then you can attend a taster session for this workshop by purchasing a ticket for the main conference which will run over 3 days from 11th-13th March and which will feature over 25 C++ talks.
You can upgrade your main conference ticket to a workshop ticket at no extra cost compared to purchasing the workshop ticket directly!
The workshop taster is designed to provide you with a preview/overview of this workshop where you will also have an opportunity to ask questions. In addition, the workshop preview will be made available on-demand for you to watch at your own convenience.
Register For The Workshop!
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