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IBM's new SWE agents for developers

These new agents from are the first software engineering agents of their kind powered by open LLMs that can autonomously resolve GitHub issues.

At TechXchange today, IBM showed off a new set of AI agents designed specifically to make the lives of developers easier. There are other competitive SWE agent tools looking to aid developers at work, but they primarily are relying on massive, proprietary frontier models that cost a great deal at inference time. “Our goal was to build IBM SWE-Agent for enterprises who want a cost efficient SWE agent to run wherever their code resides — even behind your firewall — while still being performant,” Puri said.

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