Munich🥨NLP × JetBrains: Code Intelligence & AI Agents

What does it take for AI systems to truly understand code and what happens when software is no longer designed only for humans, but for AI agents too? Join Munich🥨NLP and JetBrains for an evening exploring Code Intelligence and AI Agents, bringing together research and industry perspectives on how LLMs understand program behavior and how humans and coding agents can collaborate on software development. Talk 1: Code World Models Tobias Lindenbauer · JetBrains Research Talk 2: Designing Software for Humans and Agents Artem Kislovskiy · Artefact Two talks, pizza, drinks & snacks, and plenty of time to connect with Munich’s NLP, AI, and developer community. 📅 Agenda 17:45 | Doors open 18:20 | Pizza arrives 🍕 18:50 | Welcome & Intro JetBrains × Munich🥨NLP 19:00 | Talk 1: “Code World Models” Speaker: Tobias Lindenbauer · JetBrains Research Abstract Modern LLMs perform well at generating code that solves a given task, but they may introduce regressions elsewhere in the codebase, or simply write code with poor runtime or memory performance. This has led researchers to investigate how well LLMs model program behavior internally: Can they tell whether a test passes or fails without running it? Do they have a feel for which parts of the code to target to robustly optimize runtime or memory? In this talk, Tobias will outline the emerging Code World Models research direction and share early findings from an ongoing project at JetBrains Research. About the Speaker Tobias Lindenbauer is a Research Engineer at JetBrains Research working on Code World Models for improved LLM code understanding. Previously, he worked on context management, LLM routing, memory systems, and benchmarks, resulting in publications at DL4C@NeurIPS and REALM@ACL. 19:40–19:50 | Short break 19:50 | Talk 2: “Designing Software for Humans and Agents” Speaker: Artem Kislovskiy · Artefact Abstract One coding agent writes; another challenges. In this live demo, Claude Code and Codex share a split terminal in an ac