Category: software engineering
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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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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…