COMP1531

Software Engineering

in the AI Era

Presented by Atlassian

Enter LLMs

• The olden days (2022)
• AI now has a voice
• How much of what we do is language based?
• How much of what we will do is language based?
• Arms race to turn technology industry into AI industry
• First people to profit are the pickaxe sellers
• Turbulence of revolutions

3 important things to understand about AI

1. LLMs are stateless

2. Context window

3. Garbage in, garbage out

What has changed?

• How do you build the tools into a scalable business process?
• How do we review and manage the code that AI generates?
• How do you differentiate yourself as a product in a world where everything wraps an LLM?