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​We’re thrilled to announce our next meetup, hosted in collaboration with JetBrains at the JetBrains Event Space, Christoph-Rapparini-Bogen 23, 80639 München on Tuesday, October 13, 2026!

⚠️ Please register on Luma: https://luma.com/4k19ckbb — registration is free but subject to host approval, since capacity at the venue is limited. If your plans change, please cancel your registration so the spot can be offered to someone else.

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About the Event

​We’re thrilled to announce our next meetup, hosted in collaboration with JetBrains! 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 us 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. Expect two talks, pizza, drinks & snacks, and plenty of time to connect with Munich’s NLP, AI, and developer community.

Agenda - TIMETABLE:

• ​17:45 | Doors open
• ​18:20 | Pizza arrives 🍕
• 18:50 – 19:00 | Welcome and introduction (JetBrains, MunichNLP)
• 19:00 – 19:40 | Talk 1: “Code World Models”
• ​19:40 – 19:50 | Short break ​ - 19:50 – 20:30 | Talk 2: “Designing Software for Humans and Agents”
• ​20:30 – 21:00 | Networking, drinks & snacks

Talks

• Tobias Lindenbauer: Code World Models

  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.

  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.

• Artem Kislovskiy: Designing Software for Humans and Agents

  One coding agent writes; another challenges.

  In this live demo, Claude Code and Codex share a split terminal in an actor–critic loop: the actor implements changes, while the critic reviews them, questions assumptions, and runs checks. Feedback drives the actor’s next revision, and the critic checks again.

  We’ll explore how clear responsibilities, inspectable state, and verifiable actions support this collaboration — with the human deciding who acts and who critiques.

  Artem Kislovskiy is a Senior Software Engineer at Artefact in Lausanne, building reliable, Swiss-made software.