cs.PL · 2026-08-22 · No. 92

Programming Languages, 2026-08-22.

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01 — The papers

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    Escaping the Quicksand: A Call to Arms

    Peter Sewell, Jean Pichon-Pharabod

    cs.PL · cs.AI · cs.SE

    Computing has been an astonishing success - but the accumulated technical debt exposes us all to huge costs in business and societal risk. For 75 years, we've built systems to prose specifications with test-and-debug development. That works well enough for industry to thrive, but it's an expensive and ineffective feedback loop, and leaves everyone relying on shaky foundations. Now, AI-enabled engineering is amplifying the success by reducing...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.19674 · PDF

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