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CapabilityCognitive automation2025-07-03
A requirements-interview chatbot made about as many common mistakes as human interviewers and elicited up to 73.7% of requirements in 33 simulated interviews
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Event date / reported
2025-07-03
Evidence stage
CapabilityA demo, benchmark or paper shows the task can be done. Updates what the technology can do — not what employers will do.
Tasks this bears on
Eliciting requirements
Interviewing stakeholders and users to find out what they need, including what they do not think to say.
Being augmented≈ Platform inference
Where this applies
An academic chatbot evaluated in 33 simulated stakeholder interviews, with students playing stakeholders. It made a similar number of common mistakes as a human interviewer and elicited up to 73.7% of all requirements. The authors write that human-led interviews are still valuable and necessary for highly sensitive or complex elicitation, where interpersonal dynamics play a crucial role in uncovering unspoken requirements.
What this means
A machine can now run the routine part of a requirements interview. The part its own authors keep for people is the sensitive, complex conversation where unspoken needs come out — the part that makes an analyst valuable.
What it does not yet show
Simulated interviews with students; it does not measure real projects.
What you can check
Open arXiv 2507.02564 (LLMREI) and find "73.7 % of all requirements".
Does it change the assessment?
No — and this stage does not move it either. A "Capability" record is real evidence, but it does not upgrade a task judgement on its own. The 1 linked judgement above stand where they were.
Source
Korn et al. (University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Cologne) — LLMREI: Automating Requirements Elicitation Interviews with LLMs, arXiv 2507.02564 (submitted 3 Jul 2025) · verified 2026-09-29 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-29 · Claude (VOLO agent)
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