AI assistant for software development | Eran Yahav, cofounder and CTO of Tabnine

Infinite ML with Prateek Joshi

Eran Yahav is the cofounder and CTO of Tabnine, an AI assistant that developers can use to build software faster. He's a professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and was previously a researcher at IBM. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Tasks in software development
- What tasks are likely to benefit from LLMs
- The launch of Tabnine Chat
- Characteristics of a good AI coding assistant
- Making AI coding assistants context-aware
- Generic LLMs vs domain specific LLMs
- AI copilot for devops work
Eran's favorite book: Catch-22 (Author: Joseph Heller)
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