How to pronounce swe-agent

swe-agent is most commonly pronounced "swee ay jent" (/ˈswiː ˌeɪdʒənt/). This is one of several readings in active use; the developer community hasn't converged on a single answer.

Princeton/Stanford autonomous coding agent (Yang, Jimenez, Press et al.); "SWE" = software engineering. Pronunciation is genuinely split: most ML/coding-agent speakers say it as one syllable "SWEE" (rhymes with "free"), but spelling it out "S-W-E agent" is also common. No creator/docs/FAQ documents an official reading (SWE-bench FAQ and SWE-agent README both silent), so marked contested; the "swee" form is the more frequent spoken default and is used as the primary respelling. STRESS: SWEE-ay-jent.

Alternate readings you might hear:

• "ess dubble yoo ee ay jent" /ˌɛs ˌdʌbəljuː ˈiː ˌeɪdʒənt/

Source: arXiv 2405.15793 — SWE-agent: Agent-Computer Interfaces Enable Automated Software Engineering (Princeton/Stanford, NeurIPS 2024)

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