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AI-Powered Code Search At Scale

Hosted by Audrey Lorberfeld and Trey Grainger

Thu, Oct 30, 2025

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AI-Powered Search
Doug Turnbull and Trey Grainger
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What you'll learn

Components that make great code search

Learn what truly matters when building code search in the age of AI

Variants of AI-powered code search at scale

Technical deep dive into two AI-powered code search applications from Sourcegraph

AI-powered search: reality vs hype

Familiarize yourself with what’s actually possible today—and what’s still a moonshot—in applying AI to code search

Why this topic matters

Code search has come a long way from command-clicking into references or traversing ASTs. Modern code search tools blend traditional IR techniques with generative AI workflows to push the boundaries of code exploration and understanding. Getting comfortable with this paradigm is essential for anyone building or maintaining large-scale engineering systems.

You'll learn from

Audrey Lorberfeld

Founder, Women of Search; Software Engineer @ Sourcegraph

Audrey is a Software Engineer at Sourcegraph, helping developers search, understand, and write code in complex codebases. She formerly held software engineering roles at Pinecone (the vector database) and Reddit, and served as a Data Scientist at IBM. She is also the Founder of Women of Search, an international community dedicated to empowering and celebrating women working in the search field.

Trey Grainger

Founder @ Searchkernel, Author, "AI-Powered Search"

Trey is author of the book AI-Powered Search and is the founder of Searchkernel, a software company building the next generation of AI-powered search. He is an advisor to several startups and adjunct professor of computer science at Furman University. He previously served as CTO of Presearch, a decentralized web search engine, and as chief algorithms officer and SVP of engineering at Lucidworks, an search company whose search technology powers hundreds of the world’s leading organizations.


Trey is an instructor of Maven's AI-Powered Search course.

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Sourcegraph
Searchkernel
Pinecone
Reddit
Lucidworks

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