Full stack development

SWE-Marathon: Evaluating Coding Agents at Billion-Token Scale - Rishi Desai, Abundant AI

SWE-Marathon: Evaluating Coding Agents at Billion-Token Scale - Rishi Desai, Abundant AI

SWE-Marathon introduces a benchmark for long-horizon autonomous software engineering, pushing coding agents from bug fixes to full project ownership. It highlights the critical need for robust, multi-layered verification and anti-cheat mechanisms to prevent reward hacking in tasks spanning hundreds of millions of tokens, revealing that current agents achieve only a 26% success rate.

Full Stack Greenfield Projects : Are they still relevant?

Full Stack Greenfield Projects : Are they still relevant?

Bharat Goenka, co-founder of Tally, discusses the company's unconventional approach to software development through "Full Stack Greenfield" projects. He explains why building every component from scratch, despite being a high-risk strategy, has been crucial for Tally's success in serving the SMB market, fostering extreme customer loyalty, and aspiring to connect 200 million businesses. The talk delves into the historical context, the philosophy of questioning and choosing constraints, and the distinction between product and custom engineering.