Episode
How LLMs Are Reshaping Recommendation Systems
Software Engineering Daily · Aug 18, 2026 · 48 min
News feeds and recommendation systems have long relied on deep learning architectures that score each candidate item independently. As LLMs have matured, they have opened up a fundamentally different approach, where a system can reason about content the way it reasons about language. However, that power comes with a fresh set of engineering challenges around cost, scale, and evaluation. LinkedIn…