SE Radio 626: Ipek Ozkaya on Gen AI for Software Architecture

SE Radio 626: Ipek Ozkaya on Gen AI for Software Architecture

Author: team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) July 24, 2024 Duration: 59:33

Ipek Ozkaya, Principal Researcher and Technical Director of the Engineering Intelligent Software Systems group at the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon, discusses generative AI for Software Architecture with SE Radio host Priyanka Raghavan. The episode delves into fundamental definitions of software architecture and explores use cases in which gen AI can enhance architecture activities. The conversation spans from straightforward to challenging scenarios and highlights examples of relevant tooling. The episode concludes with insights on verifying the correctness of output for software architecture prompts and future trends in this domain. Brought to you by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software magazine.


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