door Petra Heck | sep 18, 2026
In one of my earlier posts I wrote about the developments in software engineering in the age of AI, GenAI and LLMs. I identified that AI agents are the next step in LLM systems. But developments are going real fast. Next to new engineering practices for agent-based...
door Petra Heck | jun 3, 2026
In a previous post I gave a software engineering perspective on the most recent developments in AI. The post listed different technological developments we need to consider when trying to predict the future of software engineering: the advancement of AI from Machine...
door Petra Heck | jul 13, 2022
Since AI systems (software systems with a machine learning component in it) are becoming more omnipresent in our daily lives, a lot of discussion is going on, on for example the ethical aspects of such systems. There are many examples of AI systems that take...
door Petra Heck | sep 10, 2021
In my previous post on AI engineering I defined the concepts involved in this new discipline and explained that with the current state of the practice, AI engineers could also be named machine learning (ML) engineers. Burkov (2020) defines ML engineering as a mix...
door Petra Heck | apr 16, 2021
In recent years more and more software applications contain machine learning components (Ozkaya, 2020). This means that software engineers should learn how to build these type of systems (Menzies, 2019). Instead of just code, also datasets and machine learning models...
