In our second episode, we chat with Ibragim Badertdinov from Nebius about SWE-rebench, coding agents, and his path from dentistry and AI.
Our first episode can be found here
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Find out more about JetBrains Research: https://lp.jetbrains.com/research/software-engineering/
Chapters:
00:00:00 Teaser & Introduction
00:02:41 Ibrahim's Non-Traditional Background: From Dentistry to Tech
00:10:45 The "School 42" Bootcamp Experience
00:13:00 Getting into Machine Learning & Kaggle
00:17:20 The First Internship & Learning from a Great Mentor
00:20:10 Contrasting the Worlds of Medicine and Tech
00:26:56 What Are Coding Agents?
00:33:40 Explaining SWE-bench: How Coding Tasks Are Evaluated
00:37:15 RLVR (Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards)
00:43:10 The Creation of SWE-Rebench
00:50:00 The Main Challenges with Task Quality and Scale
00:55:00 What's New in SWE-Rebench V2 (and Kotlin support)
00:58:42 Will AI Change Code Review?
01:02:00 contree.dev: A New Checkpointing & Forking Tool for Agents
01:09:35 The Open-Source Community's Reaction to SWE-Rebench
01:15:20 SWE-Bench Pro vs. SWE-Rebench
01:18:20 Why Nebius Invests in Open-Source Research
01:21:00 Predictions for the Future of AI and Programming
01:26:00 Final Advice for Career Switchers
