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

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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