SWE-Agent Team Interview - Agents, Programming, and Benchmarks!

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Interview with the SweetBench team (Princeton researchers).

SweetBench: benchmark testing coding ability of LLMs.

SweetAgent: agentive framework for real-world software tasks.

Introduction of Killian, Ofir, and Carlos from Princeton University.

Open-source nature of their work; links in description.

Killian uses Cursor IDE (powered by Claude LLM).

Ofir's limited current programming, past use of Visual Studio and GPT-4.

Carlos uses Cursor and AWS for cloud computing infrastructure.

SweetBench and SweetAgent Overview and Creation

SweetBench's origin: brainstorming to utilize GitHub infrastructure beyond code repositories.

SweetBench tests LLMs' ability to solve real-world bugs and fix software using GitHub issues and pull requests.

Novelty of SweetBench: testing on real-world scenarios, unlike previous methods focusing on small programming challenges.

Initial lack of interest in SweetBench due to its difficulty; low initial accuracy rates.

Timeline and team members involved in SweetBench and SweetAgent development.

Development of SweetAgent to address SweetBench's challenges; initial goal of 6% accuracy.

SweetAgent's success: exceeding expectations with 13% accuracy; key factors including specialized interface design and linting integration.

Comparison with other Agents and Future of Programming

Simple explanation of SweetBench and SweetAgent.

Comparison with Devon (closed-source) and other approaches to AI-assisted programming.

Different approaches to AI-assisted programming: basic code suggestion vs. fully autonomous task completion.

Prediction: short-term explosion of code contributors, long-term potential decrease in need for programmers due to AI advancements.

Carlos's perspective: short-term increase in accessibility due to AI tools, long-term shift towards AI-driven automation and human QA.

Killian's perspective: short-term increase in productivity for skilled developers, long-term potential for code to remain foundational but with higher-level specifications.

Ofir's perspective: short-term continued need for programmers, long-term increased effectiveness and potential for non-programmers to create software through natural language interaction.

Discussion on potential changes in coding languages due to AI involvement.

Potential shift towards statically typed languages for better efficiency with language models.

Correlation between language model performance and language popularity.

Potential for non-human-readable programming languages tailored to language models.

Killian's perspective: potential shift towards languages with more guarantees, possibly a paradigm shift towards specifying functions rather than implementing them.

Ofir's perspective: importance of training data and compute power; potential for transpilation to bridge between new and existing languages.

Upcoming SweetAgent 1.0 release with improved ease of use and extensibility.

SweetBench Multimodal release: expanding to include challenges involving visual components.

SweetAgent refactor: improved stability, parallelization, and ease of use; introduction of sRex for remote execution.

Cloud-based API for easier agent evaluation; reduced evaluation time.

SweetBench Multimodal challenges with free evaluation (initially).