What Don’t We Know About Agentic AI?
Open questions from our June 2026 SE@UHD group retreat
empirical-software.engineering
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Baltes (Software Engineering and Empirical Research)
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Software Engineering Beyond the AI Hype
Join my inaugural lecture in Heidelberg on 10th June
3rd Copenhagen Symposium on Human-Centered SE AI
SE is as relevant as ever because innovation is happening around the agent harness
Citation Manipulation Network on SSRN
Fake AI-rewritten preprints uploaded to inflate citations
Agentic Refactoring Death Spiral
Claude Code indefinitely finds new things to "refactor"
GenAI vs. Calculators?
Calculator introduction in schools was controversial. Analogy for GenAI?
GenAI Use Cases
Embracing GenAI in software development while resisting the hype
The Ripple Effects of Role Transitions and Reorganizations
New online survey focusing on role transitions and reorganizations of employees in software development roles
LLM Guidelines for SE
Guidelines for empirical studies in software engineering involving large language models
Empirical Software Engineering on Google Scholar
Updated Google Scholar metrics still list our papers as top two