SE Radio 666: Eran Yahav on the Tabnine AI Coding Assistant

SE Radio 666: Eran Yahav on the Tabnine AI Coding Assistant

Author: team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) April 30, 2025 Duration: 1:02:05

Eran Yahav, Professor of Computer Science at Technion, Israel, and CTO of Tabnine, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the Tabnine AI coding assistant. They discuss how the design and implementation allows software engineers to use code completion and perform tasks such as automated code review while still maintaining developer privacy. Eran and Gregory also explore how research in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) has informed the features in Tabnine.

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