Towards Autonomous Software Development: The SWE-agent Revolution

Researchers from Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI), Princeton University present SWE-agent, an LM-based autonomous system that tackles real-world software engineering challenges from SWE-bench. It operates by outputting thoughts and commands and then receiving feedback from command execution using the ReAct environment. The core idea of it lies in designing an agent-computer interface (ACI) tailored to LMs, which outperforms traditional interfaces like the Linux shell. The inadequacy of the Linux shell for LM interaction prompts the creation of an effective ACI …

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