Category: software engineering
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My 2025 in software engineering
Unrelenting talk of LLMs now infests all the software ecosystems I frequent. Almost all the papers published (week) daily on the Software Engineering arXiv have an LLM themed title. Way back when I read these LLM papers, they seemed to be more concerned with doing interesting things with LLMs than doing software engineering research. Predictions…
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Software_Engineering_Practices = Morals+Theology
Including the word science in the term used to describe a research field creates an aura of scientific enterprise. Universities name departments “Computer Science” and creationist have adopted the term “Creation Science”. The word engineering is used when an aura with a practical hue is desired, e.g., “Software Engineering” and “Consciousness Engineering”. Science and engineering…