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• Can You Trust GPT with Your System Design? Testing AI’s Architectural IQ March 30, 2026
  Image by Vinson Tan ( 楊 祖 武 ) from Pixabay https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10978937 We’ve all seen Large Language Models (LLMs) write impressive snippets of code or debug a tricky function. But can an AI actually understand the soul of a system? Can it explain the “why” behind a complex architectural decision? The paper, “Do Large Language Models Contain Software […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• GenAI: The Architect’s New Brainstorming Buddy, Not a Replacement March 23, 2026
  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=11015085&casa_token=5hSfww3AlwIAAAAA:eTn9d1W-p95CJtxwAcvPft_bWZB9R8i6P-d1IZBln6MmSF-En1Q4vKdgbejF8w2klKZYeX1VZx4&tag=1 For years, software architects have operated in an “automation gap.” While developers enjoy robust CI/CD pipelines and automated testing, architects have largely relied on manual whiteboarding and expert intuition. With the rise of Generative AI (GenAI), many wonder: Is the gap finally closing? In this paper, researchers provide a reality check. Their verdict? GenAI […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• Is Your Microservice Architecture Causing Heartburn? The Cost of Static Chaos on Runtime Speed March 16, 2026
  BIld av stux från Pixabay https://cs.gssi.it/catia.trubiani/download/2025-ICSA-Correlation-Architecture-Performance-Antipatterns.pdf In the world of microservices, we often chase the dream of independent deployment, rapid scaling, and resilient services. We focus on the dynamic—the Kubernetes pods autoscaling, the latency spikes, the load balancer metrics. We assume that if we have a robust runtime, our architecture is sound. But this study […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• Ai improves productivity in the short term, without decreasing maintainability February 19, 2026
  The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice – Codemanship’s Blog https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00788 There is a lot of interest in Agentic AI and coding assistants, lots of hype, and lots of scare. This paper does a large-scale experiment on how much coding assistants really help. They look at 150 developers, and they find that […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• The close future of software engineering February 5, 2026
  https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10220 We’re witnessing a transformative shift in embedded software engineering as generative AI moves from a tool to an active participant in development pipelines. In our recent study, we explored how embedded software teams—especially in safety-critical and resource-constrained domains—are adapting to this change. Unlike conventional programming, embedded systems demand determinism, reliability, and traceability, attributes that […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• What happens if you give a compiler to an LLM… January 29, 2026
  https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.12146 Large Language Models (LLMs) are now central to code generation, but they often produce non-compiling or incorrect programs. We investigate how giving an LLM direct access to a real compiler (gcc) transforms it from a passive code writer into an active programming agent. We conduct an extensive experiment on 699 real programming tasks in […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• New year, new book! January 22, 2026
  Link to amazon During the entire 2025, I’ve had a chance to get into details with programming of agents, LLMs, and what have you. Thanks to the fact that my role as pro-dean ended, I’ve been given a lot of time to do it. My family has supported me a lot too. Without them, this […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• Quantum computing, or can we live on Mars? December 19, 2025
  Once in a while I get to read a book that has nothing to do with my field. It’s mostly for enjoyment. Not many know that I was an astronomy freak when I was a kid. Somewhere in the middle of my primary school, I read books about red dwarfs, black holes, distant galaxies, and […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• The thinking machine, or machine that makes machines November 30, 2025
  Artificial Intelligence, and in particular Generative AI, is probably the hottest technology in town. Everybody we know talks about it, everybody we know wants to use it, but almost no one gets it to work on the industrial scale. Well, that is true with a bit of modification. We have the OpenAIs and Anthropics of […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• The Singularity is nearer October 31, 2025
  Image generated by Claude, text written by myself 🙂 https://www.adlibris.com/sv/bok/the-singularity-is-nearer-9780399562761 I’ve had vacation this week, so I managed to read a few books. One of them was the book by Ray Kurzweil about AI. It’s a continuation of the classical book “The Singularity is Near” by the same author. I like both of them…. Now, […]
  Miroslaw Staron