Category: research aims
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Chinese research in software engineering
China and the Future of Science is the title of a recent article on the blog The Scholar’s Stage. In a series of posts the author, Tanner Greer, has been discussing how Chairman Xi and the Chinese central committee have reoriented the party towards a new goal. In 2026, the aim of China’s communist enterprise…
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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…