SPLASH 2026 keynote: Keeping the Engineer in Software Engineering in the age of AI coding agents
satnam6502 · x · 2026-10-05
Harvard's Elena Glassman will keynote SPLASH/ISSTA 2026 (Oct 4-9, Oakland) with "In the Age of AI Coding Agents, Keeping the Engineer in Software Engineering." Sharer satnam6502 argues humans remain essential in the AI loop of code synthesis and verification: AIs can't be judge and jury, and humans provide the essential inductive judgment. The talk speaks directly to the industry debate over whether coding agents will replace engineers.
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