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Baden-Württembergs Polizei darf wohl Software von Palantir vorrübergehend nutzen
Baden-Württemberg einigt sich einem Bericht zufolge über den Einsatz der polizeilichen Datenanalysesoftware von Palantir. Beim Einsatz gibt es Auflagen.

"Bürgerrechte-Partei"
„Die Polizei in Baden-Württemberg darf künftig die umstrittene Software der US-Firma #Palantir nutzen. Die #grün-schwarze Landesregierung hat sich auf eine Gesetzesänderung geeinigt.“

from my link log —
Emulating aarch64 in software using JIT compilation and Rust.
https://pitsidianak.is/blog/posts/2025-08-25_emulating_aarch64_in_software_using_JIT_compilation.html
saved 2025-08-26

»Software-Entwickler trauen KI nicht:
Die grosse Mehrheit der Entwickler nutzt mittlerweile KI bei der Programmierarbeit. Trotzdem sind die Coderinnen und Coder skeptisch, ob sie den Algorithmen wirklich trauen können.«
An was könnte dies wohl liegen, evt. weil die auch ein wenig Erfahrung mit Software haben und nicht gleich jegliches Marketing Propaganda glauben?!??
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Software-Entwickler trauen KI nicht
Die grosse Mehrheit der Entwickler nutzt mittlerweile KI bei der Programmierarbeit. Trotzdem sind die Coderinnen und Coder skeptisch, ob sie den Algorithmen wirklich trauen können.

🏳️‍🌈 Commodore 64 Ultimate is a new FPGA-based computer that should be compatible with most classic C64 games and software
https://liliputing.com/commodore-64-ultimate-is-a-new-fpga-based-computer-t…

Commodore 64 Ultimate is a new FPGA-based computer that should be compatible with most classic C64 games and software - Liliputing
Commodore 64 Ultimate is a new FPGA-based computer that should be compatible with most classic C64 games and software

Excite Audio and KSHMR team up for South Asian-inspired software instrument based on authentic recordings https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/exci…

Excite Audio and KSHMR team up for South Asian-inspired software instrument based on authentic recordings
"This came out a desire to create the ultimate Indian sample library, using the most talented musicians that I've met over the years"

🌧 Veraltete #IT in Unternehmen: Deutsche Firmen hängen an #Legacy- #Software fest - Golem.de

Using Generative AI in Software Design Education: An Experience Report
Victoria Jackson, Susannah Liu, Andre van der Hoek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21703 …

Using Generative AI in Software Design Education: An Experience Report
With the rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, software engineering educators have grappled with how best to incorporate them into the classroom. While some research discusses the use of GenAI in the context of learning to code, there is little research that explores the use of GenAI in the classroom for other areas of software development. This paper provides an experience report on introducing GenAI into an undergraduate software design class. Students were required to use GenAI (in …

Boston-based cloud cost management startup CloudZero raised a $56M Series C led by BlueCrest Capital Management and Innovius Capital (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/05/…

Exclusive: CloudZero raises $56M to tame cloud costs
Companies' cloud spending has shot up because of AI rollouts.

Arzt-Software: CompuGroup Medical gewinnt Ausschreibung der Bundeswehr
CompuGroup Medical erhält einen Großauftrag zur Digitalisierung des Sanitätsdienstes der Bundeswehr und soll Software für Ärzte entwickeln.

Today I drafted a writeup on multicall binaries:
https://github.com/orangecms/multicall/
Feedback is welcome, any additional pointers etc. - feel free to open issues/PRs or reply right here. :)

GitHub - orangecms/multicall: Evaluation of "multicall" (aka Busybox aka software multiplexing)
Evaluation of "multicall" (aka Busybox aka software multiplexing) - orangecms/multicall

DEQSE Quantum IDE Extension: Integrated Tool for Quantum Software Engineering
Majid Haghparast, Ronja Heikkinen, Samuel Ovaskainen, Julian Fuchs, Jussi P P Jokinen, Tommi Mikkonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22843

DEQSE Quantum IDE Extension: Integrated Tool for Quantum Software Engineering
This paper presents a tool that simplifies quantum software development by unifying circuit design, code generation, and execution within a single cross-platform environment that supports iterative development. Implemented as open source, the DEQSE Quantum IDE Extension has been developed to provide quantum functionalities within the Visual Studio Code environment, including project creator, code runner, code converter, and embedded quantum circuit simulator. Furthermore, the system provides ca…

It’s a bummer this bundle ends before my PyCon UK keynote (~mild spoiler~), but why don’t y’all get these 25 books on software architecture just in case?
(OF COURSE it has Architecture Patterns with Python)
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/software-archite…

Humble Tech Book Bundle: Software Architecture 2025 by O'Reilly
Pay what you want for the latest Humble Tech Bundle: Software Architecture 2025 and help support Code for America with your purchase!

jung: JUNG and javax class dependencies (2012)
A network of software class dependency within the JUNG 2.0.1 and javax 1.6.0.7 library namespaces edu.uci.ics.jung and java/javax. Nodes represent classes and a directed edge indicates a dependency of one class on another.
This network has 6120 nodes and 138706 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted

Palantir Software ist nicht nur ein Problem, weil es so "in die Hände der AfD fallen könnte". Sie ist ein Problem, weil sie demokratische Grundsätze Computationalismus unterordnet. Auch ohne Faschisten im Parlament wäre die Anschaffung unwürdig und zu bekämpfen.

GollumFit - An #IceCube Open-Source Framework for Binned-Likelihood Neutrino Telescope Analyses: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04491 -> An open-source software for neutrino telescope analyses: https://icecube.wisc.edu/news/research/2025/07/gollumfit-an-open-source-software-for-neutrino-telescope-analyses/

Vista Equity Partners agrees to acquire ERP software provider Acumatica from PE firm EQT, sources say in a deal that values Acumatica at ~$2B including debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Buyout Firm Vista to Acquire EQT’s Acumatica in $2 Billion Deal
Vista Equity Partners agreed to acquire Acumatica Inc., a software company that helps businesses streamline workflows.

Just read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.

In 2011, I posted to our forums to explain "Why not Windows?" Our goal is not to make the most money; it's to make the best software that we can make. There are other successful platforms, but I don' t think our software would be better on any of them.
Since 2011 we've moved to different forums and the hardware hosting our archived forums died. Maybe someday I'll revive it from backups, but in the meantime it's nice that the Internet Archive still has a co…

MAAD: Automate Software Architecture Design through Knowledge-Driven Multi-Agent Collaboration
Ruiyin Li, Yiran Zhang, Xiyu Zhou, Peng Liang, Weisong Sun, Jifeng Xuan, Zhi Jin, Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21382

MAAD: Automate Software Architecture Design through Knowledge-Driven Multi-Agent Collaboration
Software architecture design is a critical, yet inherently complex and knowledge-intensive phase of software development. It requires deep domain expertise, development experience, architectural knowledge, careful trade-offs among competing quality attributes, and the ability to adapt to evolving requirements. Traditionally, this process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and relies heavily on architects, often resulting in limited design alternatives, especially under the pressures of agil…

"What you want is not just to fix the bugs software testers catch but figure out the reasons those bugs were created and improve you process so you create fewer bugs in the future."
https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2016/05/09/softwa…

»Amazon-Entwickler am Limit – KI-Druck verwandelt Programmieren in Fließbandarbeit:
Software-Entwickler:innen bei Amazon beklagen widrige Arbeitsumstände. Sie müssen mittlerweile Code wie am Fließband schreiben. Welche Ursache dieser neue Leistungsdruck hat.«
Wenn dies nicht mehr Fehler so wie anfälligeren Code und unbehobene Probleme durch "ungebildete" Lösungen der Angestellten ergibt?
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Amazon-Entwickler am Limit: KI-Druck verwandelt Programmieren in Fließbandarbeit - t3n – digital pioneers
Software-Entwickler:innen bei Amazon beklagen widrige Arbeitsumstände. Sie müssen mittlerweile Code wie am Fließband schreiben. Welche Ursache dieser neue Leistungsdruck hat. Bei Amazon stehen einige Veränderungen für Mitarbeiter:innen an. Zuletzt wurde etwa bekannt, dass der Onlinehändler Homeoffice-Möglichkeiten weiter einschränkt. Zudem gab es erste Personalkürzungen, durch die eine Umstrukturierung der Amazon-Struktur angestoßen werden soll. Die Veränderungen merken […]

Everything I know about good #API #design
https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design/

Identification of Design Recommendations for Augmented Reality Authors in Corporate Training
Stefan Graser, Martin Schrepp, Stephan B\"ohm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21722 …

Identification of Design Recommendations for Augmented Reality Authors in Corporate Training
Innovative technologies, such as Augmented Reality (AR), introduce new interaction paradigms, demanding the identification of software requirements during the software development process. In general, design recommendations are related to this, supporting the design of applications positively and meeting stakeholder needs. However, current research lacks context-specific AR design recommendations. This study addresses this gap by identifying and analyzing practical AR design recommendations rel…

Missing Link: Machtzentrale Palantir – eine Software lenkt Organisationen
Palantir will ein Betriebssystem für Organisationen. Was steckt technisch dahinter – und wie verändert es Strukturen und Machtverhältnisse?

Was able to grab and install Lagrange (for accessing Gopher/Gemini sites) here on my laptop that has Mint on it, just by searching for Lagrange in the Software Manager (gotta love Linux). Installed, launched-- and yeah, it really is a great, clean GUI. Also, you can see my Rogue desktop background 😂
#Gemini #Gopher …

A post from the archive 📫:
If LLMs Can Code, Why Are We Building More IDEs?
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/if-llms-can-code-why-are-we-building-more-ides

from my link log —
There is no software maintenance.
https://henrikwarne.com/2023/01/07/there-is-no-software-maintenance/
saved 2023-01-08

Die Grünen legen es in #BadenWürttemberg anscheinend darauf an, sich überflüssig zu machen (= sich hübsch zu machen als künftiger kleiner Koalitionspartner). Ja, man hat mehr parlamentarische Kontrolle reinverhandelt, und will eine europäische Lösung vorantreiben, aber erstmal ist die Polizei schon dabei, die

Streit um umstrittene Analyse-Software von Palantir: Polizei in BW darf Gotham nutzen
Die Polizei kauft für viele Millionen eine umstrittene Software, die sie noch gar nicht nutzen darf. Das sorgte bei den Grünen für großen Unmut. Jetzt gibt es eine Lösung.

Testbed and Software Architecture for Enhancing Security in Industrial Private 5G Networks
Song Son Ha, Florian Foerster, Thomas Robert Doebbert, Tim Kittel, Dominik Merli, Gerd Scholl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20873

Testbed and Software Architecture for Enhancing Security in Industrial Private 5G Networks
In the era of Industry 4.0, the growing need for secure and efficient communication systems has driven the development of fifth-generation (5G) networks characterized by extremely low latency, massive device connectivity and high data transfer speeds. However, the deployment of 5G networks presents significant security challenges, requiring advanced and robust solutions to counter increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. This paper proposes a testbed and software architecture to strengthen the…

I think I'll hold my $MSFT, thank you very much.

✅ Microsoft market cap tops $4 trillion after hours on earnings beat - CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/microsoft-market-cap-tops-4-trillion-after-hours-on-earnings-bea…

Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club
The software giant reported better-than-expected quarterly results and said Azure's annual revenue topped $75 billion.

Scalability, Availability, Reproducibility and Extensibility in Islamic Database Systems
Umar Siddiqui, Habiba Youssef, Adel Sabour, Mohamed Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22384

Scalability, Availability, Reproducibility and Extensibility in Islamic Database Systems
With the widespread of software systems and applications that serve the Islamic knowledge domain, several concerns arise. Authenticity and accuracy of the databases that back up these systems are questionable. With the excitement that some software developers and amateur researchers may have, false statements and incorrect claims may be made around numerical signs or miracles in the Quran. Reproducibility of these claims may not be addressed by the people making such claims. Moreover, with the …

PSA: Fake verification replies are starting again. Don't fall for them. Best thing you can do is report them as SPAM to your instance and forward to any optional instances with "Fake Mastodon Verification Scam" written in the notes/comments section for the report. Make sure everyone you interact with knows this is going on. Permanent solutions to combat this scam are being implemented to tackle it by the software developers.

Take, for example, permissions. We have an onerous permission model that stops a user acting as another, but sandboxing applications is mostly absent, except on mobile devices. This is because in the 1970s, you could trust the code, but you couldn’t trust the people! Now, computers are used by individuals, and we don’t trust the software, but the model hasn’t caught up.
I think the ideas in the essays are salient and really helpful in imagining what might have been, and what could be.

Kommt noch jemand von Euch morgen in die #CyBARsecurity nach Bochum?
Würde mich freuen, mal ein paar aus der #Security Bubble im Fediverse persönlich kennen zu lernen.
PS: ich produziere übrigens seit einigen Jahren den WeTalkSecurity - ESET Podcast. Hört den jemand von Euch?

WeTalkSecurity - der ESET Podcast
WeTalkSecurity ist der deutschsprachige ESET Security Podcast zu den Bereichen Digitalisierung und IT-Sicherheit. Unsere Themen reichen vom Online-Shopping, Cyber-Spionage bis zur Absicherung des Unternehmensnetzwerks. Jeden Monat sprechen wir mit interessanten Gästen über aktuelle Themen aus der IT-Security. Über ESET ESET ist ein europäisches Unternehmen mit Hauptsitz in Bratislava (Slowakei). Seit 1987 entwickelt ESET preisgekrönte Sicherheits-Software, die bereits über 110 Million…

Palantir als Trojanisches Pferd in deutschen Polizeien? Während Thiel die Demokratie lieber zerstört als lebt, setzen immer mehr Bundesländer auf seine Überwachungssoftware. Thiels Software sammelt Datenmassen und erlaubt Totalüberwachung – ein Werkzeug, das Demokratie unterminiert - Das Überwachungsimperium - Wie sich die deutsche Polizei von Peter Thiels Palantir-Software abhängig macht - von Sonja Peteranderl in die @…

"Those interested in making the Universal Operating System more Universal by introducing intimate hardware control software, please consider joining the team: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Buttplug"

Mesh based segmentation for automated margin line generation on incisors receiving crown treatment
Ammar Alsheghri, Ying Zhang, Farnoosh Ghadiri, Julia Keren, Farida Cheriet, Francois Guibault
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22859

Mesh based segmentation for automated margin line generation on incisors receiving crown treatment
Dental crowns are essential dental treatments for restoring damaged or missing teeth of patients. Recent design approaches of dental crowns are carried out using commercial dental design software. Once a scan of a preparation is uploaded to the software, a dental technician needs to manually define a precise margin line on the preparation surface, which constitutes a non-repeatable and inconsistent procedure. This work proposes a new framework to determine margin lines automatically and accurat…

Ich hatte mich auf der #bibliocon25 noch gefragt, wann ich denn das letzte Mal in Bremen war bei einem Bibliothekartag. Beim Stöbern im BIB-OPUS habe ich die Antwort gefunden: 2014 war es und meine Präsentation hieß "Bibliotheken: Wir öffnen Daten. Zum Stand der Entwicklung einer offenen Dateninfrastruktur", siehe

Tracking research software outputs in the UK
Domhnall Carlin, Austen Rainer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22871 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22871

Tracking research software outputs in the UK
Research software is crucial in the research process and the growth of Open Science underscores the importance of accessing research artifacts, like data and code, raising traceability challenges among outputs. While it is a clear principle that research code, along with other essential outputs, should be recognised as artifacts of the research process, the how of this principle remains variable. This study examines where UK academic institutions store and register software as a unique research…

@… I've been asked this question myself from folks earlier in their career than I am, but obviously you're beyond me, so I'm curious to hear your take.
What is the most valuable skill for a software developer to acquire to ensure their success?
(I already suspect I have a hunch as to your thoughts, but if you're willing, I'd …

Dobrindt prüft Einsatz von US-Sicherheitssoftware
Die Analyse-Software des Unternehmens Palantir ist umstritten, einige Bundesländer nutzen sie. Ob sie bundesweit zum Einsatz kommt, ist noch nicht entschieden.
https://ww…

Una similitud entre Mastodon y el desarrollo del software libre en general es que hay una decena de bots que publican las tiras de XKCD

what in the actual fuck is going on with sdcc

Bookmarked: Talking About Muslims in Middle French: The Potential of Word-to-Vector Models for Studying Semantic Relationships in Medieval Languages – DH Lab #Digital_Humanities

»Dein Gesicht gehört uns – Die Gefahr automatischer Gesichtserkennung:
Ein Computersystem, das sekundenschnell jeden einzelnen Menschen auf der Welt identifizieren kann: Das klingt mehr nach dem Roman «1984» von George Orwell als nach der Realität. Und doch: Die Software des US-Unternehmens Clearview AI ist schon sehr nahe daran, genau das zu schaffen.«
Wenn deren "Sicherheit" auch zur Bevölkerung Überwachung eingesetzt wird?
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Dein Gesicht gehört uns – Die Gefahr automatischer Gesichtserkennung - DOK - Play SRF
Ein Computersystem, das sekundenschnell jeden einzelnen Menschen auf der Welt identifizieren kann: Das klingt mehr nach dem Roman «1984» von George Orwell als nach der Realität. Und doch: Die Software des US-Unternehmens Clearview AI ist schon sehr nahe daran, genau das zu schaffen. Neue Technologien durchdringen unser Leben, zum Guten und manchmal auch zum Schlechten. Jaime Ramirez ist Leiter der Abteilung für Ermittlungen mithilfe künstlicher Intelligenz bei der Polizei von Miami – ein…

3D Software Synthesis Guided by Constraint-Expressive Intermediate Representation
Shuqing Li, Anson Y. Lam, Yun Peng, Wenxuan Wang, Michael R. Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18625

3D Software Synthesis Guided by Constraint-Expressive Intermediate Representation
Graphical user interface (UI) software has undergone a fundamental transformation from traditional two-dimensional (2D) desktop/web/mobile interfaces to spatial three-dimensional (3D) environments. While existing work has made remarkable success in automated 2D software generation, such as HTML/CSS and mobile app interface code synthesis, the generation of 3D software still remains under-explored. Current methods for 3D software generation usually generate the 3D environments as a whole and can…

When you get the option to `Sign in with Google/Microsoft/Facebook` you're really using #OAuth. Aside from those platforms knowing what you're doing everywhere all the time, there are compelling reasons for both 3rd party services and users. (not many, but a few).
But if you DO link your #Microsoft /

Poor Software Product Management Chronicles: E-Auth, I-Auth, OAuth, Fuck Off
From the This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things department. When you are registering or logging into an online or app service and they ...

github: GitHub contest (2009)
The bipartite project-user membership network of the software development hosting site GitHub. A user connects to a project if that user is a member of that project.
This network has 177386 nodes and 440237 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/github

How (Not) To Write a Software Engineering Abstract
Lutz Prechelt, Lloyd Montgomery, Julian Frattini, Franz Zieris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21634 https://…

How (Not) To Write a Software Engineering Abstract
Background: Abstracts are a particularly valuable element in a software engineering research article. However, not all abstracts are as informative as they could be. Objective: Characterize the structure of abstracts in high-quality software engineering venues. Observe and quantify deficiencies. Suggest guidelines for writing informative abstracts. Methods: Use qualitative open coding to derive concepts that explain relevant properties of abstracts. Identify the archetypical structure of abstra…

Updates sooo smooth?! 😏 Mit einem neuen Ansatz sollen nicht nur das #Betriebssystem selbst, sondern auch alle Anwendungen, einschließlich der von Drittanbietern, regelmäßig aktualisiert werden.
Zum Artikel:

Sources and docs: a Russia-based Yandex employee maintains open-source tool fast-glob, embedded in 30 US DOD software packages and downloaded 70M times per week (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025…

Report: Russia-based Yandex employee oversees open-source software approved for DOD use
The package is listed inside Platform One’s Iron Bank, a vetted Defense Department software repository, people familiar say.

Exploring Student-AI Interactions in Vibe Coding
Francis Geng, Anshul Shah, Haolin Li, Nawab Mulla, Steven Swanson, Gerald Soosai Raj, Daniel Zingaro, Leo Porter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22614

Exploring Student-AI Interactions in Vibe Coding
Background and Context. Chat-based and inline-coding-based GenAI has already had substantial impact on the CS Education community. The recent introduction of ``vibe coding'' may further transform how students program, as it introduces a new way for students to create software projects with minimal oversight. Objectives. The purpose of this study is to understand how students in introductory programming and advanced software engineering classes interact with a vibe coding platform (Replit) whe…

Why Japanese Developers Write Code Completely Differently (And Why It Works Better)
https://medium.com/@sohail_saifi/why-japanese-developers-write-code-completely-differently-and-why-it-works-better-de…

A Systematic Literature Review on Detecting Software Vulnerabilities with Large Language Models
Sabrina Kaniewski, Fabian Schmidt, Markus Enzweiler, Michael Menth, Tobias Heer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22659

A Systematic Literature Review on Detecting Software Vulnerabilities with Large Language Models
The increasing adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering has sparked interest in their use for software vulnerability detection. However, the rapid development of this field has resulted in a fragmented research landscape, with diverse studies that are difficult to compare due to differences in, e.g., system designs and dataset usage. This fragmentation makes it difficult to obtain a clear overview of the state-of-the-art or compare and categorize studies meaningfully. In…

»Missing Link - Machtzentrale Palantir – eine Software lenkt Organisationen:
Palantir will ein Betriebssystem für Organisationen. Was steckt technisch dahinter - und wie verändert es Strukturen und Machtverhältnisse?«
Ist dies schon digitale Diktatur der sich Fortschritt betitelt aber Mental rückständig ist? Konservatieve nutzen Hightech um sich modern mental Rückständig zu präsentieren.
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Missing Link: Machtzentrale Palantir – eine Software lenkt Organisationen
Palantir will ein Betriebssystem für Organisationen. Was steckt technisch dahinter – und wie verändert es Strukturen und Machtverhältnisse?

Predicting Maintenance Cessation of Open Source Software Repositories with An Integrated Feature Framework
Yiming Xu, Runzhi He, Hengzhi Ye, Minghui Zhou, Huaimin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21678 …

Predicting Maintenance Cessation of Open Source Software Repositories with An Integrated Feature Framework
The maintenance risks of open source software (OSS) projects pose significant threats to the quality, security, and resilience of modern software supply chains. While prior research has proposed diverse approaches for predicting OSS maintenance risk -- leveraging signals ranging from surface features (e.g., stars, commits) to social network analyses and behavioral patterns -- existing methods often suffer from ambiguous operational definitions, limited interpretability, and datasets of insuffic…

So people are still fudding against open source.
(FUD = Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt)
All of this applies to closed source as well (or even worse):
https://www.xda-developers.com/drawbacks-open-source-software/
Let me make that clear:
The sole…

I can't ignore these 8 drawbacks to open-source software
I've found these drawbacks when using certain open-source tools.

LLM coding is the opposite of DRY
An important principle in software engineering is DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself. We recognize that having the same code copied in more than one place is bad for several reasons:
1. It makes the entire codebase harder to read.
2. It increases maintenance burden, since any problems in the duplicated code need to be solved in more than one place.
3. Because it becomes possible for the copies to drift apart if changes to one aren't transferred to the other (maybe the person making the change has forgotten there was a copy) it makes the code more error-prone and harder to debug.
All modern programming languages make it almost entirely unnecessary to repeat code: we can move the repeated code into a "function" or "module" and then reference it from all the different places it's needed. At a larger scale, someone might write an open-source "library" of such functions or modules and instead of re-implementing that functionality ourselves, we can use their code, with an acknowledgement. Using another person's library this way is complicated, because now you're dependent on them: if they stop maintaining it or introduce bugs, you've inherited a problem, but still, you could always copy their project and maintain your own version, and it would be not much more work than if you had implemented stuff yourself from the start. It's a little more complicated than this, but the basic principle holds, and it's a foundational one for software development in general and the open-source movement in particular. The network of "citations" as open-source software builds on other open-source software and people contribute patches to each others' projects is a lot of what makes the movement into a community, and it can lead to collaborations that drive further development. So the DRY principle is important at both small and large scales.
Unfortunately, the current crop of hyped-up LLM coding systems from the big players are antithetical to DRY at all scales:
- At the library scale, they train on open source software but then (with some unknown frequency) replicate parts of it line-for-line *without* any citation [1]. The person who was using the LLM has no way of knowing that this happened, or even any way to check for it. In theory the LLM company could build a system for this, but it's not likely to be profitable unless the courts actually start punishing these license violations, which doesn't seem likely based on results so far and the difficulty of finding out that the violations are happening. By creating these copies (and also mash-ups, along with lots of less-problematic stuff), the LLM users (enabled and encouraged by the LLM-peddlers) are directly undermining the DRY principle. If we see what the big AI companies claim to want, which is a massive shift towards machine-authored code, DRY at the library scale will effectively be dead, with each new project simply re-implementing the functionality it needs instead of every using a library. This might seem to have some upside, since dependency hell is a thing, but the downside in terms of comprehensibility and therefore maintainability, correctness, and security will be massive. The eventual lack of new high-quality DRY-respecting code to train the models on will only make this problem worse.
- At the module & function level, AI is probably prone to re-writing rather than re-using the functions or needs, especially with a workflow where a human prompts it for many independent completions. This part I don't have direct evidence for, since I don't use LLM coding models myself except in very specific circumstances because it's not generally ethical to do so. I do know that when it tries to call existing functions, it often guesses incorrectly about the parameters they need, which I'm sure is a headache and source of bugs for the vibe coders out there. An AI could be designed to take more context into account and use existing lookup tools to get accurate function signatures and use them when generating function calls, but even though that would probably significantly improve output quality, I suspect it's the kind of thing that would be seen as too-baroque and thus not a priority. Would love to hear I'm wrong about any of this, but I suspect the consequences are that any medium-or-larger sized codebase written with LLM tools will have significant bloat from duplicate functionality, and will have places where better use of existing libraries would have made the code simpler. At a fundamental level, a principle like DRY is not something that current LLM training techniques are able to learn, and while they can imitate it from their training sets to some degree when asked for large amounts of code, when prompted for many smaller chunks, they're asymptotically likely to violate it.
I think this is an important critique in part because it cuts against the argument that "LLMs are the modern compliers, if you reject them you're just like the people who wanted to keep hand-writing assembly code, and you'll be just as obsolete." Compilers actually represented a great win for abstraction, encapsulation, and DRY in general, and they supported and are integral to open source development, whereas LLMs are set to do the opposite.
[1] to see what this looks like in action in prose, see the example on page 30 of the NYTimes copyright complaint against OpenAI (#AI #GenAI #LLMs #VibeCoding

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Fleet management software provider Motive raises $150M led by Kleiner Perkins; the company reportedly could go public by the end of 2025 (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
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Vibe Coding as a Reconfiguration of Intent Mediation in Software Development: Definition, Implications, and Research Agenda
Christian Meske, Tobias Hermanns, Esther von der Weiden, Kai-Uwe Loser, Thorsten Berger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21928

Vibe Coding as a Reconfiguration of Intent Mediation in Software Development: Definition, Implications, and Research Agenda
Software development is undergoing a fundamental transformation as vibe coding becomes widespread, with large portions of contemporary codebases now being AI-generated. The disconnect between rapid adoption and limited conceptual understanding highlights the need for an inquiry into this emerging paradigm. Drawing on an intent perspective and historical analysis, we define vibe coding as a software development paradigm where humans and generative AI engage in collaborative flow to co-create sof…

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The UK's CMA finds that Microsoft's software licensing terms harm competition in the cloud market, may open a probe into Microsoft and Amazon in 2026 (Financial Times)
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On the Future of Software Reuse in the Era of AI Native Software Engineering
Antero Taivalsaari, Tommi Mikkonen, Cesare Pautasso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19834 https://…

On the Future of Software Reuse in the Era of AI Native Software Engineering
Software development is currently under a paradigm shift in which artificial intelligence and generative software reuse are taking the center stage in software creation. Earlier opportunistic software reuse practices and organic software development methods are rapidly being replaced by "AI Native" approaches in which developers place their trust on code that has been generated by artificial intelligence. This is leading to a new form of software reuse that is conceptually not all that differen…

Palo Alto Networks has agreed to buy CyberArk Software in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the Israeli cybersecurity company at about $25B, expected to close in Q2 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-30/palo-alto…

Experience converting a large mathematical software package written in C to C 20 modules
Wolfgang Bangerth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21654 https://

Experience converting a large mathematical software package written in C++ to C++20 modules
Mathematical software has traditionally been built in the form of "packages" that build on each other. A substantial fraction of these packages is written in C++ and, as a consequence, the interface of a package is described in the form of header files that downstream packages and applications can then #include. C++ has inherited this approach towards exporting interfaces from C, but the approach is clunky, unreliable, and slow. As a consequence, C++20 has introduced a "module" system in which …

AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47 (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-sales-startup-aurasell-raise…

AI startup Aurasell raised $30M seed in 28 hours to take on Salesforce
AI sales startup Aurasell is emerging from stealth with a $30 million seed round that its founders said closed in roughly a day.

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Machine Learning Experiences: A story of learning AI for use in enterprise software testing that can be used by anyone
Michael Cohoon, Debbie Furman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22064

Machine Learning Experiences: A story of learning AI for use in enterprise software testing that can be used by anyone
This paper details the machine learning (ML) journey of a group of people focused on software testing. It tells the story of how this group progressed through a ML workflow (similar to the CRISP-DM process). This workflow consists of the following steps and can be used by anyone applying ML techniques to a project: gather the data; clean the data; perform feature engineering on the data; splitting the data into two sets, one for training and one for testing; choosing a machine learning model; t…

Figma priced its US IPO at $33 per share, above its expected range of $30 to $32, raising $1.2B in the offering and valuing the company at $19.3B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/figma-prices-ipo-at-33-above-expected-range.html

Figma prices IPO at $33, above expected range
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Metamorphic Testing of Deep Code Models: A Systematic Literature Review
Ali Asgari, Milan de Koning, Pouria Derakhshanfar, Annibale Panichella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22610 h…

Metamorphic Testing of Deep Code Models: A Systematic Literature Review
Large language models and deep learning models designed for code intelligence have revolutionized the software engineering field due to their ability to perform various code-related tasks. These models can process source code and software artifacts with high accuracy in tasks such as code completion, defect detection, and code summarization; therefore, they can potentially become an integral part of modern software engineering practices. Despite these capabilities, robustness remains a critical…

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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/figma-fig-starts-trading-on-nyse-after-ipo.html

Figma more than triples in NYSE debut after selling shares at $33
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»#OpenSource-Dilemma auch in der EU – Viele sehen #Vorteil'e, zu wenige tragen bei:
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Open-Source-Dilemma auch in der EU: Viele sehen Vorteile, zu wenige tragen bei
Viele EU-Organisationen sehen die Vorteile von Open-Source-Software, stellt die Linux Foundation fest. An Beiträgen zur Entwicklung hapert es aber.

Dynamics of Gender Bias in Software Engineering
Thomas J. Misa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21050 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21050

Dynamics of Gender Bias in Software Engineering
The field of software engineering is embedded in both engineering and computer science, and may embody gender biases endemic to both. This paper surveys software engineering's origins and its long-running attention to engineering professionalism, profiling five leaders; it then examines the field's recent attention to gender issues and gender bias. It next quantitatively analyzes women's participation as research authors in the field's leading International Conference of Software Engineering (1…

OpenAI is expanding its consulting-like service to refine its models and build bespoke apps for large enterprise and government clients spending at least $10M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-takes-page…

OpenAI Takes a Page From Palantir, Doubles Down on Consulting Services
As OpenAI pitches its artificial intelligence to big companies and government agencies, it’s taking a page from the playbook of many software firms by offeringin-house researchers and software engineers to customize AI for customers. OpenAI is adding staff and resources for a consulting-like ...

Testing Is Not Boring: Characterizing Challenge in Software Testing Tasks
Davi Gama Hardman, Cesar Fran\c{c}a, Brody Stuart-Verner, Ronnie de Souza Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20407

Testing Is Not Boring: Characterizing Challenge in Software Testing Tasks
As software systems continue to grow in complexity, testing has become a fundamental part of ensuring the quality and reliability of software products. Yet, software testing is still often perceived, both in industry and academia, as a repetitive, low-skill activity. This perception fails to recognize the creativity, problem-solving, and adaptability required in testing work. Tasks such as designing complex test cases, automating testing processes, and handling shifting requirements illustrate …

Campfire, which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services, raised a $35M Series A led by Accel (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/tiny-ai-erp-startup-campfire-is-winning-s…

Tiny AI ERP startup Campfire is winning so many startups from NetSuite, Accel led a $35M Series A  | TechCrunch
Campfire was launched in 2023 to upend 1990s-era enterprise resource planning accounting software (ERP) like Netsuite with an LLM-powered alternative. 

Distinguishing Quantum Software Bugs from Hardware Noise: A Statistical Approach
Ahmik Virani, Devraj, Anirudh Suresh, Lei Zhang, M V Panduranga Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20475

Distinguishing Quantum Software Bugs from Hardware Noise: A Statistical Approach
Quantum computing in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era presents significant challenges in differentiating quantum software bugs from hardware noise. Traditional debugging techniques from classical software engineering cannot directly resolve this issue due to the inherently stochastic nature of quantum computation mixed with noises from NISQ computers. To address this gap, we propose a statistical approach leveraging probabilistic metrics to differentiate between quantum software …

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- Domain-Driven Design in Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review on Implementation, C...
Ozan \"Ozkan, \"Onder Babur, Mark van den Brand

What Makes ChatGPT Effective for Software Issue Resolution? An Empirical Study of Developer-ChatGPT Conversations in GitHub
Ramtin Ehsani, Sakshi Pathak, Esteban Parra, Sonia Haiduc, Preetha Chatterjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22390

What Makes ChatGPT Effective for Software Issue Resolution? An Empirical Study of Developer-ChatGPT Conversations in GitHub
Conversational large-language models are extensively used for issue resolution tasks. However, not all developer-LLM conversations are useful for effective issue resolution. In this paper, we analyze 686 developer-ChatGPT conversations shared within GitHub issue threads to identify characteristics that make these conversations effective for issue resolution. First, we analyze the conversations and their corresponding issues to distinguish helpful from unhelpful conversations. We begin by catego…

Payroll and HR software provider Gusto agrees to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to small businesses; Guideline was valued at $1.15B in 2021 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/gusto-retirement-guideline-deal.html

Gusto agrees to buy retirement plan provider Guideline
Gusto, which offers payroll and human resources software, has agreed to acquire Guideline, a startup that provides 401(k) plans to small businesses.

Black-Box Bug-Amplification for Multithreaded Software
Yeshayahu Weiss, Gal Amram, Achiya Elyasaf, Eitan Farchi, Oded Margalit, Gera Weiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21318 https…

Black-Box Bug-Amplification for Multithreaded Software
Bugs, especially those in concurrent systems, are often hard to reproduce because they manifest only under rare conditions. Testers frequently encounter failures that occur only under specific inputs, even when occurring with low probability. We propose an approach to systematically amplify the occurrence of such elusive bugs. We treat the system under test as a black-box and use repeated trial executions to train a predictive model that estimates the probability of a given input configuration …

Can Large Language Models Help Students Prove Software Correctness? An Experimental Study with Dafny
Carolina Carreira, \'Alvaro Silva, Alexandre Abreu, Alexandra Mendes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22370

Can Large Language Models Help Students Prove Software Correctness? An Experimental Study with Dafny
Students in computing education increasingly use large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. Yet, the role of LLMs in supporting cognitively demanding tasks, like deductive program verification, remains poorly understood. This paper investigates how students interact with an LLM when solving formal verification exercises in Dafny, a language that supports functional correctness, by allowing programmers to write formal specifications and automatically verifying that the implementation satisfie…

How legacy carmakers fell behind Tesla and Chinese EV brands in software, as a Toyota Woven engineer says the company's new Arene platform is "full of bugs" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d5d5b7fb-30fc-4f32-86d2-7499bcc433b6

‘Full of bugs’: how the world’s biggest carmakers fell behind in software
The shift from a manufacturing model to a digital one is proving difficult and expensive for many of the industry’s traditional companies

AgentMesh: A Cooperative Multi-Agent Generative AI Framework for Software Development Automation
Sourena Khanzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19902 https://

AgentMesh: A Cooperative Multi-Agent Generative AI Framework for Software Development Automation
Software development is a complex, multi-phase process traditionally requiring collaboration among individuals with diverse expertise. We propose AgentMesh, a Python-based framework that uses multiple cooperating LLM-powered agents to automate software development tasks. In AgentMesh, specialized agents - a Planner, Coder, Debugger, and Reviewer - work in concert to transform a high-level requirement into fully realized code. The Planner agent first decomposes user requests into concrete subtas…

Does Editing Improve Answer Quality on Stack Overflow? A Data-Driven Investigation
Saikat Mondal, Chanchal K. Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21329 https://…

Does Editing Improve Answer Quality on Stack Overflow? A Data-Driven Investigation
High-quality answers in technical Q&A platforms like Stack Overflow (SO) are crucial as they directly influence software development practices. Poor-quality answers can introduce inefficiencies, bugs, and security vulnerabilities, and thus increase maintenance costs and technical debt in production software. To improve content quality, SO allows collaborative editing, where users revise answers to enhance clarity, correctness, and formatting. Several studies have examined rejected edits and ide…

A profile of vibe coding startup Lovable, which became the fastest-growing software startup in history, reaching $100M in annualized revenue in eight months (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

Vibe Coding Unicorn Lovable Is The Fastest Growing Software Startup Ever
Stockholm-based Lovable hit over $100 million in annualized revenue in just eight months by using AI to enable millions of non-coders to instantly turn their ideas into websites, apps and online side hustles.

Agentic AI for Software: thoughts from Software Engineering community
Abhik Roychoudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17343 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17343

Agentic AI for Software: thoughts from Software Engineering community
AI agents have recently shown significant promise in software engineering. Much public attention has been transfixed on the topic of code generation from Large Language Models (LLMs) via a prompt. However, software engineering is much more than programming, and AI agents go far beyond instructions given by a prompt. At the code level, common software tasks include code generation, testing, and program repair. Design level software tasks may include architecture exploration, requirements under…

PDLogger: Automated Logging Framework for Practical Software Development
Shengcheng Duan, Yihua Xu, Sheng Zhang, Shen Wang, Yue Duan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19951 https://

PDLogger: Automated Logging Framework for Practical Software Development
Logging is indispensable for maintaining the reliability and diagnosability of modern software, yet developers still struggle to decide where and how to log effectively. Existing automated logging techniques focus on isolated sub-tasks - predicting a single log position, level, or message - and therefore cannot produce complete, high-quality log statements that reflect real-world practice in which multiple logs often appear inside one method. They also neglect deeper semantic dependencies among…

AI and Agile Software Development: A Research Roadmap from the XP2025 Workshop
Zheying Zhang, Tomas Herda, Victoria Pichler, Pekka Abrahamsson, Geir K. Hanssen, Joshua Kerievsky, Alex Polyakov, Mohit Chandna, Marius Irgens, Kai-Kristian Kemell, Ayman Asad Khan, Crystal Kwok, Evan Leybourn, Munish Malik, Dorota Mleczko, Morteza Moalagh, Christopher Morales, Yuliia Pieskova, Daniel Plan\"otscher, Mika Saari, Anastasiia Tkalich, Karl Josef Gstettner, Xiaofeng Wang

AI and Agile Software Development: A Research Roadmap from the XP2025 Workshop
This paper synthesizes the key findings from a full-day XP2025 workshop on "AI and Agile: From Frustration to Success", held in Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland. The workshop brought together over 30 interdisciplinary academic researchers and industry practitioners to tackle the concrete challenges and emerging opportunities at the intersection of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and agile software development. Through structured, interactive breakout sessions, participants identified shar…

VDGraph: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Unlock Insights from SBOM and SCA Data
Howell Xia, Jonah Gluck, Sevval Simsek, David Sastre Medina, David Starobinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20502

VDGraph: A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Unlock Insights from SBOM and SCA Data
The high complexity of modern software supply chains necessitates tools such as Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) to manage component dependencies, and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools to identify vulnerabilities. While there exists limited integration between SBOMs and SCA tools, a unified view of complex dependency-vulnerability relationships remains elusive. In this paper, we introduce VDGraph, a novel knowledge graph-based methodology for integrating vulnerability and dependency d…

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Zhenyu Qi, Haotang Li, Hao Qin, Kebin Peng, Sen He, Xue Qin

Clean Code In Practice: Challenges and Opportunities
Dapeng Yan, Wenjie Yang, Kui Liu, Zhiming Liu, Zhikuang Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19721 https://a…

Clean Code In Practice: Challenges and Opportunities
Reliability prediction is crucial for ensuring the safety and security of software systems, especially in the context of industry practices. While various metrics and measurements are employed to assess software reliability, the complexity of modern systems necessitates a deeper understanding of how these metrics interact with security and safety concerns. This paper explores the interplay between software reliability, safety, and security, offering a comprehensive analysis of key metrics and m…

An OpenSource CI/CD Pipeline for Variant-Rich Software-Defined Vehicles
Matthias Wei{\ss}, Anish Navalgund, Johannes St\"umpfle, Falk Dettinger, Michael Weyrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19446

An OpenSource CI/CD Pipeline for Variant-Rich Software-Defined Vehicles
Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) offer a wide range of connected functionalities, including enhanced driving behavior and fleet management. These features are continuously updated via over-the-air (OTA) mechanisms, resulting in a growing number of software versions and variants due to the diversity of vehicles, cloud/edge environments, and stakeholders involved. The lack of a unified integration environment further complicates development, as connected mobility solutions are often built in isol…

SMECS: A Software Metadata Extraction and Curation Software
Stephan Ferenz, Aida Jafarbigloo, Oliver Werth, Astrid Nie{\ss}e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18159 https://

SMECS: A Software Metadata Extraction and Curation Software
Metadata play a crucial role in adopting the FAIR principles for research software and enables findability and reusability. However, creating high-quality metadata can be resource-intensive for researchers and research software engineers. To address this challenge, we developed the Software Metadata Extraction and Curation Software (SMECS) which integrates the extraction of metadata from existing sources together with a user-friendly interface for metadata curation. SMECS extracts metadata from…

Software Reuse in the Generative AI Era: From Cargo Cult Towards AI Native Software Engineering
Tommi Mikkonen, Antero Taivalsaari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17937

Software Reuse in the Generative AI Era: From Cargo Cult Towards AI Native Software Engineering
Software development is currently under a paradigm shift in which artificial intelligence and generative software reuse are taking the center stage in software creation. Consequently, earlier software reuse practices and methods are rapidly being replaced by AI-assisted approaches in which developers place their trust on code that has been generated by artificial intelligence. This is leading to a new form of software reuse that is conceptually not all that different from cargo cult development…

DocFetch - Towards Generating Software Documentation from Multiple Software Artifacts
Akhila Sri Manasa Venigalla, Sridhar Chimalakonda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17719 https://…

DocFetch - Towards Generating Software Documentation from Multiple Software Artifacts
Software Documentation plays a major role in the usage and development of a project. Widespread adoption of open source software projects contributes to larger and faster development of the projects, making it difficult to maintain the associated documentation. Existing automated approaches to generate documentation largely focus on source code. However, information useful for documentation is observed to be scattered across various artifacts that co-evolve with the source code. Leveraging this…