SWE-bench creator: my math professor friend asked me about attention, never heard of SWE-bench
OfirPress · x · 2026-09-10
Ofir Press, creator of SWE-bench, shares that his childhood friend — now a math professor — called to ask him for intuition on self-attention math, which he calls his career peak, only to discover the professor had never heard of SWE-bench, prompting him to joke that he needs to do more marketing.
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