Programming Throwdown, Episode 99, squashing bugs using AI and machine learning with Boris Paskolov. Take it away, Jason.

Hey, everybody. This is a really, really fascinating topic. I think there's been a lot of interest

around using AI to sort of help developers. We've all had apps, even like super popular apps, like the Uber and the Google app and other apps where they have bugs and they crash and things like that.

So even the people who are the best at this have tons of issues.

And so it's becoming a really interesting area.

And we're so fortunate we have Boris Puskalov of the CEO and co-founder of DeepCode to kind

of sit down and roundtable how we can make software better.

So Boris, why don't you kind of start off by telling us like a little bit about your background.

What was the idea or the inception of DeepCode and kind of

highlight that I was doing right now?

Sounds good. So welcome everyone. Thank you for having me.

So my name is Boris Pascliffe. I was originally born in Bulgaria and I did did my bachelor's at Mastering Computer Science in Boston,

and then worked with a number of different companies as a developer.

Later on in my life, I did an executive MBA, so I started moving into project management, program management,

and many different things in that space.

And yeah, and I'm still working in technology, but I'm coding less and less, as you can imagine.

So about DeepCote, obviously, the idea is that it started in 2016, and it's a spin-off from

ETH Zurich, which is the number one tech university in Europe.

I usually call it the MIT of Europe

when I make fun with the guys. Nice. But yeah, the idea is that my other co-founder's professor

Dr. Martin Vetchef and Dr. Vessel and Ritesh, so they spent about 12 years together researching

the topic of learning from big code, so they spent about 12 years together researching the topic of learning

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