JetBrains Research Podcast

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 hereEpisode links: SWE-rebench: https://swe-rebench.com/ConTree: https://contree.dev/ Ibragim: https://x.com/ibragim_bad Also mentioned: https://huggingface.co/datasets/nebius/SWE-bench-extra https://scale.com/leaderboard/swe_bench_pro_public https://swe-bench-live.github.io/ 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

We discuss the legacy of OpenCV, the future of Computer Vision, how AI can transform professional sports through biomechanics, and why real-world technology adoption remains so slow. Episode links OpenCV: https://opencv.org/ FitWise AI: https://www.thefitwise.com/ Anna Kogan: linkedin: / anna-kogan-44b24673