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<div>Dear ASA members, </div>
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<div>This Thursday (tomorrow) I'll be running a workshop on how to use the latest AI coding tools (eg Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to revive and modernise a scientific codebase. This is scheduled as an in-person session at Swinburne, but I thought I’d open it
up more widely in case there are others in our community that would be interested in joining via Zoom.</div>
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<p><a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/4vdkCL7EwMfm8zoKguBfMfyeW2R?domain=swinburne.zoom.us" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://swinburne.zoom.us/j/756407223?pwd=RHk2TEF2MFZJZDNhL1FwckxDUUpSZz09</a><br>
Meeting ID: 756 407 223 <br>
Password: 059918</p>
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<div>DETAILS:</div>
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<div>The idea is to start with some old code (for me, I'll be in a folder that had its last touch in 2010 and first in 2006). We'll work through getting set up, version control, modernisation, validation, and anything else that might help you.</div>
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<div>You can come along with your laptop, a coding agent already set up, a folder to work in, and follow along. Or just come along with an interest and to get a sense of what can be done. </div>
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<div>See you on Thursday!</div>
<div>Darren</div>
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<div>[*] If you want to follow along with your own code, please spend some time beforehand installing the tool you want to use. We could spend a whole session on this if you're coming in cold, so I'd like to limit this part to ~10 min, and some prep would be
helpful to everyone. Each company has detailed instructions online that are straightforward to follow.</div>
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<div>You'll get the most value out of a paid plan (I recommend Anthropic’s Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex @$30 AUD/month). But I believe there are still free offerings with weaker models that offer a reasonable starter (Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI with an education
account, Google’s Antigravity CLI).</div>
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<div>If anyone is having problems with setup, don’t hesitate to contact me beforehand and I can (hopefully) help.</div>
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Prof Darren Croton (he/him)</div>
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ARC Future Fellow</div>
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Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing<br>
ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics<br>
Swinburne University of Technology<br>
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P: +61 39214 5537<br>
E: dcroton@swin.edu.au<br>
M: H74, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia<br>
W: <a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/6icFCMwGxOtRmnoXLIkhKf8TR-t?domain=astronomy.swin.edu.au">http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~dcroton</a><br>
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<i>I respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri People, and their Elders past, present, and emerging, who are the traditional custodians of the land on which Swinburne’s Australian campuses are located.<br>
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