Philipp Leitner
philippleitner.net
Philipp Leitner
@philippleitner.net
Associate Professor @ Chalmers University of Technology

http://icet-lab.eu
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“AI job losses“ is just a code word for “Global recession driven by the USA criminally unregulated financial market job losses“.
January 29, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Some holiday news - paper accepted in Future Generation Computing Systems (FGCS):

doi.org/10.1016/j.fu...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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-...
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.
www.pcgamer.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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...
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.
www.pcgamer.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Reminder - I still have an opening for a postdoc in my lab (closing date is in one week):

www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...
Vacancies
www.chalmers.se
December 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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.
December 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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.
Yes. She had flipped this argument to say that it was proof nobody will lose their job as the LLM can only be used by human beings to iterate, but the implication is still of course that the increased speed of iteration will mean fewer people have to do the work (and are expected to do more)
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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:
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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.
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Reposted by Philipp Leitner
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.
Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Reposted by Philipp Leitner
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.
arxiv.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
If you want to see ChatGPT have a stroke in real-time just ask it "Is there a seahorse emoji?".
October 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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
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...
arxiv.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Fuck's sake, the @chiefs.bsky.social lost the game via the most ugly touchdown I have ever seen. Heartbreak.
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"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...
Pete Hegseth Is Living the Dream
A man who retired as a major lectures hundreds of generals about the need to meet his standards.
www.theatlantic.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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.
First Day: A New Chapter at the JKU

It's Wednesday. Is this important? It's my first day in a new position. So, perhaps the real question is: what's going to be important to me from now on?

stefan-marr.de/2025/10/firs...
First Day: A New Chapter at the JKU
New job and responsibilities: what's now important to me?
stefan-marr.de
October 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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!
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...
arxiv.org
September 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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.
tante.cc tante @tante.cc · Sep 19
"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."
Introducing the Forklift Certified License—Aria’s Barks
It's not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don't give a damn how capital defines its needs.
aria.dog
September 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Slides for yesterday's talk at the 2025 WASP Software Engineering cluster meeting:

www.icet-lab.eu/news/2025090...
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
www.icet-lab.eu
September 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I find this equal parts fascinating and weird.
Today I learned: Die einzige Tageszeitung Liechtensteins, das "Vaterland", "übersetzt" ihre Artikel mit ChatGPT in "Jugendsprache" und veröffentlicht das auf brudiland.li.
Das Ziel: "Die Sprache darf salopp sein und viele Anglizismen enthalten. News in Nice eben!" (www.vaterland.li/portale/brud...)
September 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I will serve as Awards Co-Chair (together with Catalina M. Lladó) for ICPE'26:

icpe2026.spec.org/organizing-c...
Organizing Committee: ICPE 2026
icpe2026.spec.org
September 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Reposted by Philipp Leitner
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
Hospitals adopt error-prone AI transcription tools despite warnings
OpenAI’s Whisper tool may add fake text to medical transcripts, investigation finds.
arstechnica.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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.
August 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I share this worry. To be honest it's a surprise that Scholar survived as long as it did.
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
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
hannahshelley.neocities.org
August 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM