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Introduction to Large Language Models for Software Engineering
May 07, 2026
LLMs
Software Engineering
AI4SE
Empirical SE
Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly moved from research curiosity to everyday tooling in software development. Tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and ChatGPT are already embedded in millions of developers’ workflows — yet many practitioners and researchers are still grappling with a fundamental question: what can these models actually do for software engineering, and where do they fall short?