Ibragim Badertdinov: From Dentistry to AI, Coding Agents, SWE-rebench | 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 here

Episode 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