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Philipp Leitner

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Associate Professor @ Chalmers University of Technology icet-lab.eu

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Victor Hogemann @victor.hogemann.com · 29/01/2026
“AI job losses“ is just a code word for “Global recession driven by the USA criminally unregulated financial market job losses“.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 30/12/2025
Some holiday news - paper accepted in Future Generation Computing Systems (FGCS): doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
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Redirecting
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 12/12/2025
Don't get me wrong, it's hard not to root for Expedition 33 and their super humble and nice team, but some of these awards are a bit sus. Is it even an indie game? Best art direction in a year with freaking Silksong? www.pcgamer.com/games/clair-...
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 takes home an absurd 9 wins at The Game Awards, more than Baldur's Gate 3 in 2023
This year's Game Awards GOTY (and almost everything else) is the popular French RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 12/12/2025
Remember when @pcgamer.com gave #expedition33 70% in their review, calling the game "rarely as fun as it looks"? Yeah, that didn't age great. #expedition33 is now officially the most decorated game at the Game Awards, ever. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/cl...
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a stylish riff on the JRPG, but its real-time-infused combat is rarely as fun as it looks.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 11/12/2025
Reminder - I still have an opening for a postdoc in my lab (closing date is in one week): www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...
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Vacancies
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 09/12/2025
At some point in the future, people will read about trickle-down economics and have the same confused reaction that we have when learning how universally accepted catholic indulgences were in the Middle Ages.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 25/11/2025
That's a fairly common "playing both sides" argument. Productivity+++, but really nobody needs to worry for their jobs. These things are not likely to be true at the same time.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 19/11/2025
I have a new job ad for a postdoc out: www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha... Application deadline: Dec. 18th Find out more about the work of my lab: icet-lab.eu
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 06/11/2025
For the last couple of weeks I have been trying to vibe-code a relatively complicated research system in the area of Java microbenchmarking in my spare time. I am slowly reaching the point where the system does something useful, so here are some initial impressions:
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 05/11/2025
People talk a lot about echo chambers on here, but I think it's important to remember that you are not entitled to anybody's attention, independently of how important you or your cause are.
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 30/10/2025
People are saying that AI will transform the way we teach and learn. It has already transformed the way students cheat and, to my surprise, how they apologize for cheating.
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Ian Foster @ianfoster42.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Fascinating paper by Zhen Zhang & James Evans: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05591  Analyzing 2M papers published immediately following the training of five prominent open LLMs, we show that ... the most perplexing are disproportionately represented among the most celebrated ... and also the most discounted.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 10/10/2025
If you want to see ChatGPT have a stroke in real-time just ask it "Is there a seahorse emoji?".
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 09/10/2025
How do software development companies think about LLM policies? New paper accepted in IEEE Software, Special Issue on AIware in the Foundation Models Era. Congratulations to Ranim Khojah, Mazen Mohamad, Linda Erlenhov, and Francisco Gomes Oliveira Neto. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.06718
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LLM Company Policies and Policy Implications in Software Organizations
The risks associated with adopting large language model (LLM) chatbots in software organizations highlight the need for clear policies. We examine how 11 companies create these policies and the factor...
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 07/10/2025
Fuck's sake, the @chiefs.bsky.social lost the game via the most ugly touchdown I have ever seen. Heartbreak.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 01/10/2025
"The American military will follow lawful orders and disobey unlawful ones." Will it? So far the track record of long-standing institutions pushing back isn't great. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Pete Hegseth Is Living the Dream
A man who retired as a major lectures hundreds of generals about the need to meet his standards.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 01/10/2025
It's an interesting question what "the fundamentals of programming" are going to be in an AI age. Two months ago I would have agreed that being able to program yourself, without AI, line-by-line, will remain crucial for the foreseeable future. Today, I'm much less sure.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 28/09/2025
New paper accepted by Huaifeng Zhang, Mohannad Alhanahnah, YT, and Ahmed Ali El Din: BLAFS: A Bloat-Aware Container File System (accepted at the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing) Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2305.04641 Tool: github.com/negativa-ai/... Congratulations to Huaifeng and the team!
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The Cure is in the Cause: A Filesystem for Container Debloating
Containers have become a standard for deploying applications due to their convenience, but they often suffer from significant software bloat-unused files that inflate image sizes, increase provisionin...
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 19/09/2025
I am emphatically in favor of this new type of "open source ish" license: If you’re a little guy, do whatever you want with my work. If you’re a big guy, fuck you pay me.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 12/09/2025
Slides for yesterday's talk at the 2025 WASP Software Engineering cluster meeting: www.icet-lab.eu/news/2025090...
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WASP Software Engineering and Technology Cluster Workshop Talk | Internet Computing and Emerging Technologies lab (ICET-lab)
Welcome to the Internet home of the the Internet Computing and Emerging Technologies lab at Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 09/09/2025
I find this equal parts fascinating and weird.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 08/09/2025
I will serve as Awards Co-Chair (together with Catalina M. Lladó) for ICPE'26: icpe2026.spec.org/organizing-c...
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Organizing Committee: ICPE 2026
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/h... This is funny: one way to tell that openAI scraped YouTube, is that its Whisper transcription is biased toward transcribing inaudible or garbled text to "drop a comment in the section below" or "please like subscribe and share" and such
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Hospitals adopt error-prone AI transcription tools despite warnings
OpenAI’s Whisper tool may add fake text to medical transcripts, investigation finds.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 27/08/2025
The reporting on the tragic ChatGPT suicide assistance story triggers me a little bit, but not in the way you might expect. Teenagers turning to ChatGPT in times of crisis was bound to happen, given that mental healthcare everywhere is expensive, unavailable, and of embarrassingly shitty quality.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 27/08/2025
I share this worry. To be honest it's a surprise that Scholar survived as long as it did.
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 13/08/2025
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
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Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
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tante @tante.cc · 25/08/2025
Btw. about 6 months ago the Anthropic CEO said that by now 50% of all code would be written by LLMs. How does that prediction relate to the reality we all live in and what does that say about his ability to make predictions about the future?
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Anthropic CEO: AI Will Be Writing 90% of Code in 3 to 6 Months - Business Insider
"And then in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 22/08/2025
Many decision processes end up unfair because for the deciding body false positives are disastrous but false negatives are almost irrelevant. That's how you end up with coding interviews, overreaching visa requirements, and similar.
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CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Good morning Bluesky !
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Gregory Gay @greggay.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Some colleagues and I are exploring #bias in #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment review activities. If you have a few minutes, please fill out our survey: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Microsoft Forms
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 12/08/2025
If you had outstanding PhD students in computer benchmarking or performance evaluation who graduated between Oct 2023 and Sept 2025: consider nominating them for the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award: research.spec.org/awards/call-... (I'm part of the selection group this year))
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Call for Nominations | SPEC Research
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 07/08/2025
Am I a fantasy football prodigy or is the NFL draft AI full of shit? Only time will tell.
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AIware 2025 @aiware-conf.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
#KnowYourPC @philippleitner.net, an Associate Professor at Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg, reminds us that non-functional properties like performance and energy efficiency will be critical in the AIware era. 💡 He invites you to contribute your ideas to AIware2025 (deadline in 2 days!)
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 29/07/2025
I'll be teaching a new (probably one-time) seminar course on software performance engineering in fall: chalmers.instructure.com/courses/36695 Suggestions for papers students should definitely read?
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DAT680 / DIT005 Special topics in software engineering
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 16/07/2025
I'll just leave that quote here ...
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 15/07/2025
Hi, im the US president. I just stole some soccer trophy. Please talk about that rather than the Epstein files, ok?
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 12/07/2025
Thrilling AI sports: www.independent.co.uk/tech/robot-f...
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Two robots stretchered off in world’s first AI football match
Event was a preview of the upcoming World Humanoid Robot Games in China
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 12/07/2025
New paper by Ranim Khojah accepted in TSE (Transactions on Software Engineering): The Impact of Prompt Programming on Function-Level Code Generation (w. Francisco Gomes Oliveira Neto, Mazen Mohamad, and me) Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2412.20545
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 04/07/2025
To start my summer vacation, I have (finally!) written a new blog post. Read more! (a post about reading academic papers as a PhD student) philippleitner.medium.com/read-more-6c...
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Read More!
As a, by now reasonably experienced, PhD supervisor, students (mine and others) sometimes ask me the question how they can improve their…
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 04/07/2025
I understand that this article is trying to make a case for tax cuts for tech companies, but they accidentally said the silent part out loud: qz.com/tech-layoffs...
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 24/06/2025
My reaction when I read about Meta trying to poach AI researchers from OpenAI with $100 million signing bonuses.
Bell curve meme.

Left-hand side: Study CS
Middle: AI is eating all the coding jobs!
Right-hand side: Study CS
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 22/06/2025
Watching top level table tennis on YouTube has convinced me that Twitch-style live commenting is fundamentally not a good idea for sports.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 16/06/2025
Who's going to FSE next week?
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Olivera Stajić @oliveras.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Medienethikerin Paganini: Videos in Medien vom Amoklauf in Graz "inakzeptabel" www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Medienethikerin Paganini: Videos in Medien vom Amoklauf in Graz "inakzeptabel"
"Krone.at" und "oe24.at" zeigten Videos vom Attentat an der Grazer Schule. Die Ängste der Kinder würden für Klicks instrumentalisiert, kritisiert Claudia Paganini
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Alexander Van der Bellen @bundespraesident.at · 10/06/2025
Dieser Horror ist nicht in Worte zu fassen. 
Was heute in einer Schule in Graz passiert ist, 
trifft unser Land mitten ins Herz. 

Es waren Jugendliche, die ihr ganzes Leben vor sich hatten. Eine Lehrperson, die sie auf ihrem Weg begleitet hat. 
Es gibt nichts, was in diesem Moment den Schmerz lindern kann, den die Eltern, die Großeltern, die Geschwister, die Freundinnen und Freunde der Ermordeten fühlen. 

Österreich trauert. 
Und in dieser Stunde stehen wir zusammen. 
Wir stehen zusammen, um dem Schmerz miteinander standzuhalten. Wir stehen zusammen, um für all jene 
da zu sein, die verletzt sind.

Heute und in den schweren Tagen, die kommen, 
wird unser Land zeigen, dass in diesem Miteinander 
unsere Stärke liegt. (vdb)
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 10/06/2025
I am struggling to think of a single context in which "could y'all please put a 10-year moratorium on regulating us, please?" does *not* sound like you are absolutely planning to do some vile shit in the next ten years.
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Jason Perlow @jperlow.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Philipp Leitner @philippleitner.net · 06/06/2025
In all honesty, this Trump-Musk bro-off is the least surprising thing in the world. It’s a wonder that two men with the deep-held believe that they are the only person in the world that matters have managed to hang around each other for as long as they did.
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Here's a tricky one. The online far-right absolutely can't remain silent at this moment. Like a shark, they have to keep posting or they'll die. And since they're getting paid to post, all the more so. But they can't risk really offending either party. So how to square the circle... I got it!
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