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.
Team Members
Tommy McMichen — Project LeadAkash Deo — Masters Student
Benjamin Ye — Masters Student
Leyla Latifova — Undergraduate Student
Software
You can find our software artifacts on GitHub.
Publications
AI Coding Agents Need Better Compiler Remarks
Akash Deo, Simone Campanoni, Tommy McMichen.Posters
What Do AI Coding Agents Need? Mining Trajectories to Identify Gaps in Language Tooling
Tommy McMichen.Greater Chicago Area Systems Systems Workshop, 2026.
How To Evaluate Tool Diagnostics Using AI
Akash Deo, Simone Campanoni, Tommy McMichen.Greater Chicago Area Systems Systems Workshop, 2026.
Persistent Translation Validation
Leyla Latifova, Tommy McMichen.Greater Chicago Area Systems Systems Workshop, 2026.
Northwestern University Undergraduate Research Expo, 2026.
Characterizing IR Generated by rustc and clang
Benjamin Ye, Tommy McMichen.Greater Chicago Area Systems Systems Workshop, 2026.