Birdbrain

Birdbrain builds better programming language tools for coding agents. We develop new experimental methodologies to understand the issues and gaps in current tooling ecosystems. Informed by these experiments, we tune existing tools for the agentic use case and build new tools to meet the unique needs of coding agents.

Software

You can find our software artifacts on GitHub.

Publications

AI Coding Agents Need Better Compiler Remarks
CoDAIM 2026 | PDF | DOI
Akash Deo, Simone Campanoni, Tommy McMichen.

Posters

What Do AI Coding Agents Need? Mining Trajectories to Identify Gaps in Language Tooling
Greater Chicago Area Systems Systems Workshop, 2026.
Tommy McMichen.

How To Evaluate Tool Diagnostics Using AI
Greater Chicago Area Systems Systems Workshop, 2026.
Akash Deo, Simone Campanoni, Tommy McMichen.

Persistent Translation Validation
Greater Chicago Area Systems Systems Workshop, 2026.
Leyla Latifova, Tommy McMichen.

Characterizing IR Generated by rustc and clang
Greater Chicago Area Systems Systems Workshop, 2026.
Benjamin Ye, Tommy McMichen.