IBM Develops AI Agents To Automate Software Engineering Tasks
DevOps.com, Thursday, November 7th, 2024
IBM Research is testing a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that both discovers bugs in code found in a GitHub repository and recommendations to remediate them.
Ruchir Puri, chief scientist at IBM, said version 1.0 of the software engineering (SWE) AI agents make use of multiple large language models (LLMs) to automate tasks. He added that the overall goal is to substantially reduce the backlog of bugs that application developers would have previously needed to manually address themselves.
Instead, an application developer can assign a GitHub bug report by tagging with IBM SWE and the agent will then find the problematic code and suggest a fix that a developer can then review before implementing, said Puri.