Appearances

SLO AI Meetup #2: Lessons from Building AI Coding Assistants

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

Organization
Venue
Outbrain d.o.o.
Dunajska cesta 5
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Date
February 11, 2025

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.