Introduction: LLMs as Tools for Software Engineers

LLM-based assistants have become a widely adopted tool for software engineers (Stack Overflow 2025), supporting them in various tasks such as code generation and debugging. Researchers have studied how software engineers use LLMs (Studying LLM Usage), developed new tools that integrate LLMs (LLMs for Tools), and benchmarked LLMs for software engineering tasks (Benchmarking LLMs).