Dear researchers: Is AI all you've got?
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Software engineering researchers have become overly focused on AI, with one-third of research papers at major conferences now involving AI compared to it not even ranking in the top 10 topics before 2016. While researchers chase AI funding and citations, critical problems like system reliability remain unsolved, as evidenced by major 2025 cloud outages from AWS, Google, and Cloudflare that cost businesses hundreds of millions of dollars and affected essential services worldwide.
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