@inproceedings{Li_SEFM_blogs,

title = {Software Engineering and Foundation Models: Insights from Industry Blogs Using a Jury of Foundation Models},

author = {Hao Li and Cor-Paul Bezemer and Ahmed E. Hassan},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-04-27},

booktitle = {International Conference on Software Engineering - Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE - SEIP) Track},

abstract = {Foundation models (FMs) such as large language

models (LLMs) have significantly impacted many fields, including

software engineering (SE). The interaction between SE and FMs

has led to the integration of FMs into SE practices (FM4SE)

and the application of SE methodologies to FMs (SE4FM). While

several literature surveys exist on academic contributions to these

trends, we are the first to provide a practitioner’s view. We

analyze 155 FM4SE and 997 SE4FM blog posts from leading

technology companies, leveraging an FM-powered surveying

approach to systematically label and summarize the discussed

activities and tasks. We observed that while code generation is the

most prominent FM4SE task, FMs are leveraged for many other

SE activities such as code understanding, summarization, and

API recommendation. The majority of blog posts on SE4FM are

about model deployment & operation, and system architecture

& orchestration. Although the emphasis is on cloud deployments,

there is a growing interest in compressing FMs and deploying

them on smaller devices such as edge or mobile devices. We

outline eight future research directions inspired by our gained

insights, aiming to bridge the gap between academic findings

and real-world applications. Our study not only enriches the

body of knowledge on practical applications of FM4SE and

SE4FM but also demonstrates the utility of FMs as a powerful

and efficient approach in conducting literature surveys within

technical and grey literature domains. Our dataset, results, code

and used prompts can be found in our online replication package

at https://zenodo.org/records/14563992.},

keywords = {FM4SE, Foundation models, SE4AI, SE4FM, SE4ML},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}