That's a fairly common "playing both sides" argument. Productivity+++, but really nobody needs to worry for their jobs. These things are not likely to be true at the same time.

I have a new job ad for a postdoc out: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha... Application deadline: Dec. 18th Find out more about the work of my lab: icet-lab.eu

For the last couple of weeks I have been trying to vibe-code a relatively complicated research system in the area of Java microbenchmarking in my spare time. I am slowly reaching the point where the system does something useful, so here are some initial impressions:

People talk a lot about echo chambers on here, but I think it's important to remember that you are not entitled to anybody's attention, independently of how important you or your cause are.

People are saying that AI will transform the way we teach and learn. It has already transformed the way students cheat and, to my surprise, how they apologize for cheating.

Fascinating paper by Zhen Zhang & James Evans: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05591  Analyzing 2M papers published immediately following the training of five prominent open LLMs, we show that ... the most perplexing are disproportionately represented among the most celebrated ... and also the most discounted.

If you want to see ChatGPT have a stroke in real-time just ask it "Is there a seahorse emoji?".

How do software development companies think about LLM policies? New paper accepted in IEEE Software, Special Issue on AIware in the Foundation Models Era. Congratulations to Ranim Khojah, Mazen Mohamad, Linda Erlenhov, and Francisco Gomes Oliveira Neto. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.06718

Fuck's sake, the @chiefs.bsky.social lost the game via the most ugly touchdown I have ever seen. Heartbreak.

"The American military will follow lawful orders and disobey unlawful ones." Will it? So far the track record of long-standing institutions pushing back isn't great. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It's an interesting question what "the fundamentals of programming" are going to be in an AI age. Two months ago I would have agreed that being able to program yourself, without AI, line-by-line, will remain crucial for the foreseeable future. Today, I'm much less sure.

New paper accepted by Huaifeng Zhang, Mohannad Alhanahnah, YT, and Ahmed Ali El Din: BLAFS: A Bloat-Aware Container File System (accepted at the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing) Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2305.04641 Tool: github.com/negativa-ai/... Congratulations to Huaifeng and the team!

I am emphatically in favor of this new type of "open source ish" license: If you’re a little guy, do whatever you want with my work. If you’re a big guy, fuck you pay me.

Slides for yesterday's talk at the 2025 WASP Software Engineering cluster meeting: www.icet-lab.eu/news/2025090...

I find this equal parts fascinating and weird.

I will serve as Awards Co-Chair (together with Catalina M. Lladó) for ICPE'26: icpe2026.spec.org/organizing-c...

arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/h... This is funny: one way to tell that openAI scraped YouTube, is that its Whisper transcription is biased toward transcribing inaudible or garbled text to "drop a comment in the section below" or "please like subscribe and share" and such

The reporting on the tragic ChatGPT suicide assistance story triggers me a little bit, but not in the way you might expect. Teenagers turning to ChatGPT in times of crisis was bound to happen, given that mental healthcare everywhere is expensive, unavailable, and of embarrassingly shitty quality.

I share this worry. To be honest it's a surprise that Scholar survived as long as it did.

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Btw. about 6 months ago the Anthropic CEO said that by now 50% of all code would be written by LLMs. How does that prediction relate to the reality we all live in and what does that say about his ability to make predictions about the future?

Many decision processes end up unfair because for the deciding body false positives are disastrous but false negatives are almost irrelevant. That's how you end up with coding interviews, overreaching visa requirements, and similar.

Good morning Bluesky !

Some colleagues and I are exploring #bias in #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment review activities. If you have a few minutes, please fill out our survey: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

If you had outstanding PhD students in computer benchmarking or performance evaluation who graduated between Oct 2023 and Sept 2025: consider nominating them for the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award: research.spec.org/awards/call-... (I'm part of the selection group this year))

Am I a fantasy football prodigy or is the NFL draft AI full of shit? Only time will tell.

#KnowYourPC @philippleitner.net, an Associate Professor at Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, reminds us that non-functional properties like performance and energy efficiency will be critical in the AIware era. 💡 He invites you to contribute your ideas to AIware2025 (deadline in 2 days!)

I'll be teaching a new (probably one-time) seminar course on software performance engineering in fall: chalmers.instructure.com/courses/36695 Suggestions for papers students should definitely read?

I'll just leave that quote here ...

Hi, im the US president. I just stole some soccer trophy. Please talk about that rather than the Epstein files, ok?

Thrilling AI sports: www.independent.co.uk/tech/robot-f...

New paper by Ranim Khojah accepted in TSE (Transactions on Software Engineering): The Impact of Prompt Programming on Function-Level Code Generation (w. Francisco Gomes Oliveira Neto, Mazen Mohamad, and me) Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2412.20545

To start my summer vacation, I have (finally!) written a new blog post. Read more! (a post about reading academic papers as a PhD student) philippleitner.medium.com/read-more-6c...

I understand that this article is trying to make a case for tax cuts for tech companies, but they accidentally said the silent part out loud: qz.com/tech-layoffs...

My reaction when I read about Meta trying to poach AI researchers from OpenAI with $100 million signing bonuses.

Watching top level table tennis on YouTube has convinced me that Twitch-style live commenting is fundamentally not a good idea for sports.

Who's going to FSE next week?

Medienethikerin Paganini: Videos in Medien vom Amoklauf in Graz "inakzeptabel" www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

I am struggling to think of a single context in which "could y'all please put a 10-year moratorium on regulating us, please?" does *not* sound like you are absolutely planning to do some vile shit in the next ten years.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

In all honesty, this Trump-Musk bro-off is the least surprising thing in the world. It’s a wonder that two men with the deep-held believe that they are the only person in the world that matters have managed to hang around each other for as long as they did.

Here's a tricky one. The online far-right absolutely can't remain silent at this moment. Like a shark, they have to keep posting or they'll die. And since they're getting paid to post, all the more so. But they can't risk really offending either party. So how to square the circle... I got it!

Alt-right: "Doping in sports should be legal, athletes have the right to take medication to improve their performance. Freedom!" Also alt-right: "This female boxer looks too much like a man. It's not natural, disqualify her."

One irony of the current LLM hype cycle is that LLMs are a success story of a previous, now defunct, hype cycle: big data.

OMW to Umeå for the PhD defence of Lidia Kidane (www.umu.se/en/staff/lid...). Planning to take the train back as a bit of early summer adventure.

In 2023 a fake AI-generated scientific article was falsely attributed to me. I was not the scheme's only victim. My study, just published in the Research Integrity and Peer Review journal, analyzes what going on and who profited from the mass publication of AI-generated articles. rdcu.be/enQqG

"Every time someone utters the words 'general purpose' what they mean is 'I've optimized for a thing but I don't know what that thing is'." --David Chisnall

If there is one modern word I can't hear anymore, it's "cancel culture". Can we please stop pretending like there was ever a time where you could just say whatever you wanted and people did not react to it (up to and including putting your reputation on blast in whatever media existed)?