arxivcs.SE2026-07-31
Students' Practices and Skills in the LLM-Era: "You Can't Outsource the Struggle and Still Get the Skill"
Enne Rebeca Silva de Freitas, Gustavo Pinto, Danilo Monteiro
Generative AI tools have been rapidly learned in the daily workflow of graduate students in Software Engineering, but little is known about what AI-related skills they actually need for effective use in empirical research. Without this understanding, graduate programs cannot prep…