The Future of Software Engineering in an AI-Driven World
This addresses the need for the software engineering research community to adapt to AI-driven changes, but it is incremental as it focuses on vision and challenges rather than new solutions.
The paper tackles the integration of AI into software engineering, predicting a symbiotic partnership between humans and AI over the next five years to improve development productivity, but provides no concrete results or numbers.
A paradigm shift is underway in Software Engineering, with AI systems such as LLMs gaining increasing importance for improving software development productivity. This trend is anticipated to persist. In the next five years, we will likely see an increasing symbiotic partnership between human developers and AI. The Software Engineering research community cannot afford to overlook this trend; we must address the key research challenges posed by the integration of AI into the software development process. In this paper, we present our vision of the future of software development in an AI-Driven world and explore the key challenges that our research community should address to realize this vision.