Professor of software engineering @AUEB & Analytics @TUDelft, programmer, technology author. (Tech tweets here. Follow @DSpinellis for Greek/Greece tweets.)
Athens, Greece
Joined February 2012
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Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
LLMs mirror our biases, and when they make security decisions, those biases become an attack surface. Our paper "When AI Agrees Too Much" was directly accepted at @ICSEconf '27 (119 of 2,375 submissions). Here's what we found 🧵
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
This account is inactive following TU Delft's decision to suspend action on X for at least three months from 24 March 2025 onward, which also applies to faculty accounts. Please follow me at bsky.app/profile/coolsweng.b…, mastodon.acm.org/@CoolSWEng, or linkedin.com/in/dspinellis/.
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
As we prepare for #icse2025 in Ottawa, the #icse2026 team is excited to announce that the call for papers for Cycle 1 is open! Deadlines: March 7 (abstracts) & March 14 (submissions). Next year's ICSE will be in Rio de Janeiro (April 12–18). Participate! conf.researchr.org/track/ics…
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
"Code Reading" by @CoolSWEng is that rare book that actually concerns itself with teching people how to read large codebases.
Every newcomer in an organisation will be confronted with multi-million codebases on day 1 that they have to grok in order to do their job.
Strangeley - this is not something I was taught at Uni. I mean - my code writing teaching was poor. (how could it be better when the teachers were not developers themselves? they simply didn't know) But code reading - that was not even on the radar.
It occured to me too late in my Uni education that - "no one can teach you what they themselves don't know". Wish a good samaritan spelled that to me earlier. 😂
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
github.com/dspinellis/ai-cli… it is real fun and helpful when you are forgetting stuff @DSpinellis @CoolSWEng 🙏
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
🚀 #CAIN2025 Perspectives: @CoolSWEng
Advance AI engineering at CAIN 2025! Join us.
📅 Full Papers: Nov 9 (Abs Nov 2) | DS/Posters/Industry: Dec 5
🔗 conf.researchr.org/home/cain…
#AIEngineering #SE4AI #SoftwareEngineering
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
Extraordinary AI panel at @AGRsummit @henrikkniberg @mfeathers and @CoolSWEng. Thank you for introducing us to this new world! #betterways2024
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
Excited to share I’ve been awarded the SEAS Doctoral Fellowship at @Columbia! Grateful for the chance to advance my research in OS scheduling under @kkaffes.
Big thanks to @CoolSWEng, @nikosvasilakis, and @KonsKallas for their guidance along the way!
🔗 shorturl.at/rXrR3
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
A researcher says a journal published an "apparently AI-generated, research article purporting to have been written by me."
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Three similar cases we've reported on.
retractionwatch.com/2024/08/…
This is outrageous! The Global International Journal of Innovative Research has published an, apparently AI-generated, research article purporting to have been written by me, complete with a DOI. Why? To lend credence to the tile? global-us.mellbaou.com/index… doi.org/10.59613/global.v1i3…
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
Claude 3.5 is a solid reviewer of social science papers. Just did an experiment where I reviewed a paper on my own, then, after I was done, had Claude do the same. We overlapped on 70% - I found key issues it did not, but it also found points I missed.
Useful as second opinion.
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
The ICSE 2025 Shadow PC is a program for early-career researchers (ECRs) to gain first-hand experience in the academic peer review process as a reviewer guided by senior researchers.
conf.researchr.org/track/ics…
Self-nominate to join by July 2, 2024, AoE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
Interview by Daniel Shea with Diomidis Spinellis @CoolSWEng, Professor of Software Engineering @AUEB and Professor of Analytics @TUDelft : "Getting Your Work Read Is As Hard As Getting It Written" - about audience and how to reach them. cybersec.kcist.kit.edu/638.p…
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
Takes time - no way a round it. I've used the ancient Source Navigator, ctags, any IDE that can scan & index & navigate fast source code. Chip at the edges - try to change something not too hard but nontrivial. A good book "Code Reading" by @CoolSWEng may give you more ideas.
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Thank you @CoolSWEng and the entire @msrconf community! It was a pleasure to work with @f_sarro on making the community more welcoming and inclusive!
Diomidis Spinellis retweeted
Sophisticated methods and instruments propelled scientific progress more than strict hypothesis testing through observation and experimentation. doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pg… This highlights the importance of systems building as a computer science research method.
