2nd Slovenia AI Meetup: Lessons from Building AI Coding Assistants

Co-organized and moderated the 2nd Slovenia AI Meetup featuring Jan Hartman from Sourcegraph discussing context and evaluation for AI coding assistants.

Organization

Slovenia AI Meetup

Venue

Outbrain d.o.o.

Dunajska cesta 5

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Date

February 11, 2025

Event URL

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AI Meetup featuring Jan Hartman, Machine Learning Engineer at Sourcegraph, discussing “Lessons from Building AI Coding Assistants: Context and Evaluation.”

Jan dove into the key challenges and innovations behind AI coding assistants, focusing on:

  • Using context to go from LLM to coding assistant by providing accurate responses based on existing code.
  • Constructing a context retrieval engine.
  • Utilizing various contextual information sources.
  • Obstacles involved in evaluating these systems.