Category: fashion
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70% of new software engineering papers on arXiv are LLM related
Subjectively, it feels like LLMs dominate the software engineering research agenda. Are most researchers essentially studying “Using LLMs to do …”? What does the data on papers published since 2022, when LLMs publicly appeared, have to say? There is usually a year or two delay between doing the research work and the paper describing the…
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Zig is the next fashionable language
New programming languages are constantly being created, with most remaining unknown outside a small circle of friends. Every 5-10 years or so, a few of these languages break out to become fashionable to use. In the early 1980s, I was a fan of Pascal and had conversations with developers trying to figure out why they…