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Code review is a critical software engineering practice where developers review code changes before integration to ensure code quality, detect defects, and improve maintainability. In recent years, AI agents that can understand code…

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Adapting production-level computer vision tools to bespoke scientific datasets is a critical "last mile" bottleneck. Current solutions are impractical: fine-tuning requires large annotated datasets scientists often lack, while manual code…

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AI coding agents are rapidly transforming software engineering by performing tasks such as feature development, debugging, and testing. Despite their growing impact, the research community lacks a comprehensive dataset capturing how these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hao Li , Haoxiang Zhang , Ahmed E. Hassan

Modern AI agents optimize programs by refactoring source code to trigger trusted compiler transformations. This preserves program semantics and reduces source code pollution, making the program easier to maintain and portable across…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Akash Deo , Simone Campanoni , Tommy McMichen

AI coding agents increasingly submit pull requests (Agentic-PRs) to open-source repositories, yet their performance is commonly assessed using merge and rejection outcomes alone. We hypothesized that these outcome labels do not reliably…

Code review has evolved for decades, from informal peer checking to today's pull request (PR) workflows, yet it remains a largely manual, uneven, and cognitively demanding process. The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) coding assistants…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hüseyin Özgür Kamalı , Erdem Tuna , Vahid Haratian , Eray Tüzün

With generative AI becoming widespread, the existence of AI-based programming assistants for developers is no surprise. Developers increasingly use them for their work, including generating code to fulfil the data protection requirements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Kashumi Madampe , John Grundy , Nalin Arachchilage

This work studies the applicability of automatic AI agent optimization methods to real-world agents in formal verification settings, focusing on automated theorem proving in Rocq as a representative and challenging domain. We evaluate how…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Andrei Kozyrev , Nikita Khramov , Denis Lochmelis , Valerio Morelli , Gleb Solovev , Anton Podkopaev

AI coding agents are reshaping software development through both autonomous and human-mediated pull requests (PRs). When developers use AI agents to generate code under their own accounts, code authorship attribution becomes critical for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Taher A. Ghaleb

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly automate software engineering tasks. While recent studies highlight the accelerated adoption of ``AI as a teammate'' in Open Source Software (OSS), developer interaction patterns remain…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Haoyu Gao , Peerachai Banyongrakkul , Hao Guan , Mansooreh Zahedi , Christoph Treude

In this paper, we present a comparative study of five autonomous coding agents using AIDev-pop, which is a public dataset containing thousands of AI-generated pull requests (PRs) across popular open-source repositories. We evaluate agents'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shojibur Rahman , Md Fazle Rabbi , Minhaz Zibran

Coding agents are becoming increasingly capable of completing end-to-end software engineering workflows that previously required a human developer, including raising pull requests (PRs) to propose their changes. However, we still know…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Lukas Twist , Jie M. Zhang

In recent years, AI-based software engineering has progressed from pre-trained models to advanced agentic workflows, with Software Development Agents representing the next major leap. These agents, capable of reasoning, planning, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Zhi Chen , Lingxiao Jiang

AI-based coding agents are increasingly integrated into software development workflows, collaborating with developers to create pull requests (PRs). Despite their growing adoption, the role of human-agent collaboration in software testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Roberto Milanese , Francesco Salzano , Angelica Spina , Antonio Vitale , Remo Pareschi , Fausto Fasano , Mattia Fazzini

The rapid adoption of AI coding agents for software development has raised important questions about the quality and maintainability of the code they produce. While prior studies have examined AI-generated source code, the impact of AI…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Anwar Ghammam , Mohamed Almukhtar

While prior work has examined the generation capabilities of Agentic AI systems, little is known about how reviewers respond to AI-authored code in practice. In this paper, we present a large-scale empirical study of code review dynamics in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Md. Asif Haider , Thomas Zimmermann

This exploratory study examined the consistency of human-AI collaboration by analyzing three extensive "vibe coding" sessions between a human product lead and an AI software engineer. We investigated similarities and differences in team…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Cory Knobel , Nicole Radziwill

AI agents are increasingly developed and evaluated on benchmarks relevant to human work, yet it remains unclear how representative these benchmarking efforts are of the labor market as a whole. In this work, we systematically study the…

Large language models and AI agents have recently shown promise in automating software performance optimization, but existing approaches predominantly rely on local, syntax-driven code transformations. This limits their ability to reason…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Huiyun Peng , Parth Vinod Patil , Antonio Zhong Qiu , George K. Thiruvathukal , James C. Davis

Developers now have access to a growing array of increasingly autonomous AI tools for software development. While many studies examine copilots that provide chat assistance or code completions, evaluations of coding agents -- which can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Valerie Chen , Ameet Talwalkar , Robert Brennan , Graham Neubig