Are We Just Applying LLMs? What SE Research Studies, Underexplores, and Could Do Next in the LLM Era

Zeinadsadat Saghi, Sadra Sabouri, Souti Chattopadhyay

Is AI taking over software engineering research? By 2025, AI appeared in more than half of the research-track papers at ICSE, FSE, and ASE. Yet ubiquity alone cannot show whether A…