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• Is Quantum the next big thing for the masses? May 9, 2025
  But what is quantum computing? (Grover’s Algorithm) If you are looking at the quantum computing, and you are a programmer, people start “dumbing-it-down” for you with telling about superpositions and multiple bits in one. Well, not entirely true and this is a misconception. In this video, the author explains how quantum works, based on the […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• Do we need a large model to generate good code? May 2, 2025
  arxiv.org/pdf/2504.07343 Code generation in all forms, from solving problems to test case creation, adversarial testing, fixing security vulnerability, is super-popular in contemporary software engineering. It helps the engineers to be more efficient in their work, and it helps the managers to get more out of the resources at their disposal. However, there is a bit […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• Requirements and AI April 16, 2025
  The last few months took a lot of my energy to transit from administrative duties to more research oriented ones. Although I like blogging a lot, there was simply no time left for that. Well, I did write and there will be a new book coming out soon, so here is a preview of what […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• New kids on the block, or are they? March 18, 2025
  A bit of a different blog post today. I’ve just finished a course that I teach to 2nd year undergraduate students – embedded and real-time software systems. I love to see how my students grow from not knowing anything about C to programming embedded systems with interrupts, serial communication between two Arduinos and using preprocessor […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• Agents, agents, better agents… January 22, 2025
  Image by Aberrant Realities from Pixabay Introducing smolagents: simple agents that write actions in code. In the work with generative AI, there is a constant temptation to let the AI take over and do most of the jobs. There are even ways to do that in software engineering, for example by linking the code generation […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• AI, AI and one more time AI January 15, 2025
  AI has transformed the way we develop software and create new products. It is here to stay and it will just grow bigger. This year, one of the important events is CES where the Nvidia’s CEO shows the latest developments. Well, no surprise that generative AI is the key. Generating frames, worlds, programs, dialogs, agents, […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• Let’s make 2025 an Action Research year! January 8, 2025
  Image by Haeruman from Pixabay Guidelines for Conducting Action Research Studies in Software Engineering Happy 2025! Let’s make it a great year full of fantastic research results and great products. How to achieve that goal? Well, let’s take a look at this paper about guidelines for conducting action research. These guidelines are based on my experiences with working […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• Ai should challenge… December 29, 2024
  https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3649404 We often talk about GenAI as it is going to replace us. Well, maybe it will, but given what I saw in programming, it will not happen tomorrow. GenAI is good at supporting and co-piloting human programmers and software engineers, but it does not solve complex problems such as architectural design or algorithm design. […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• What developers want from AI… December 21, 2024
  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3690928 In this time just before X-Mas, I sat down to read the latest issue of the Communications of the ACM. There are a few very interesting articles there, starting from a piece from Moshe Verdi on the concept of theoretical computer science, through an interesting piece of text on artificial AI to a very […]
  Miroslaw Staron
• Nexus… book review December 6, 2024
  Nexus : en kort historik över informationsnätverk från stenåldern till AI : Harari, Yuval Noah, Retzlaff, Joachim: Amazon.se: Böcker I’m a big fan of Yuval Noah Harari’s work. A professor who can write books like no one else, one of my role models. I’ve read Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons… now it was time […]
  Miroslaw Staron